[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#675154: octave-statistics: fstat.m shadows a core library function
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Sun Jun 2 16:54:04 UTC 2013
Control: reassign -1 octave 3.6.4-2
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream
* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-05-30 11:36]:
> Francesco Potortì <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> writes:
>
>> I get two warnings at Octave startup. The first one may be from some
>> thing left on my system, I have not found out yet. The second one seems
>> to be the octave-statistics culprit:
>
>> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.1.3/fstat.m shadows a core library function
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> This is a known issue:
>
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-December/021930.html
>
> There's not much we can do at the Debian level. Looks like the solution
> is to have fstat.m removed from Octave core. This will probably happen
> in some future release.
This issue is fixed upstream (at least in the Mercurial repository):
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/55bb8c902a4d
I am hereby reassigning this bug report to the octave package and tagging
it appropriately.
Rafael
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