[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-fixed 0.7.10-4

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 1 April 2012 13:35, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-04-01 18:15]:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:31:47PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> > Please, upload it.
>> >
>> > I pulled two patches from the upstream SVN repository
>> > (replace-deprecated-split.patch and adjust-for-octave-3.6.patch) and
>> > created two other patches (drop-mark-as-command.patch,
>> > adjust-for-hdf5-1.8.patch, already forwarded upstream).  The package
>> > finally works with Octave 3.6 and HDF 1.8.
>>
>> The build suite fails completely for me:
>> ==========================================================
>> [fixedpoint]
>>
>> << Fixed Point Load Type >>
>>   Found Fixed Point Toolbox (version 0.7.10)
>>
>>   << Fixed Point Creation >>
>>     Scalar Creation:                          FAILED
>> PASSES 1 out of 1 tests
>> Checking CC files ...
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> Compare with the latest build against 3.2:
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-fixed&arch=amd64&ver=0.7.10-3%2Bb1&stamp=1327464293
>>
>> I've uploaded my build log at
>> http://people.debian.org/~tweber/logs/
>
> Although the package seems to work, the code in fixedpoint.m that
> implements the test suite needs to be ported to Octave 3.6.

I think when Bateman created this package, Octave didn't really have
the test suite infrastructure yet.

If I don't get around within a couple of weeks to try to fix the
package again, do remove it.

- Jordi G. H.