[Pkg-octave-devel] Status of the octave 3.8 transition

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:52:47PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The transition is making progress. The Release Team has scheduled the
> first batch of binNMUs. The status can be seen here:
> 
>  https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/octave3.8.html
> 
> Current problems are:
> 
> - octave-nan FTBFS on mips and mipsel. This needs investigation.

I ran the randn() command at the beginning of the testsuite. That
already fails. If run as /usr/bin/time -v octave, the maximum RSS is
reported as
        Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1514904
So I think that this is really a memory issue and we should just reduce
the size of the matrix with random values (thereby speeding up the whole
testsuite).

	Thomas