[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672756: Bug#672756: Bug#672756: octave-pkg-dev: testsuite does not handle files under inst/private

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Wed May 30 11:17:37 UTC 2012


* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-05-30 11:38]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
> 
> I had not realized that it was indeed a design mistake. Given that, it
> probably makes sense to choose your option (2) below:
> 
> > (2) We inform the upstream author about the design mistake.  In the case
> > of tbl_delim.m in octave-statistics, in particular, the tests were kept
> > when the file moved from inst/__tbl_delim__.m into
> > inst/private/tbl_delim.m [*].  A rational thing to do would be to move
> > the tests from tbl_delim.m into tblwrite.m, the only place where
> > tbl_delim() is invoked.
> 
> I know that other packages besides statistics are affected. We need to
> identify them and report the issues upstream.

Attached below is a patch that might fix the problem in
octave-statistics.

Rafael

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