[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-ltlfat 1.4.4-1

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 12:50:40AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> The package is prepared in Git and its ITP is Bug#747039.
> 
> This package is quite large and complex.  It seems to work for me, but I did
> not test it thoroughly.  Unfortunately, the upstream package has no unit
> test suite.  

(Complex + no unit tests) is a very unfortunate combination of features.
I also wonder why the package includes some well-known external header
files in src/thirdparty (like fftw3.h)? Do you use the package in your
daily work? Otherwise, if we have a package that none of us uses and
that has not unit tests, we will have difficulties in ensuring a
reasonable quality.

> Many of those demo files produce plots, which does not work in the absence
> of a graphics system.  I got around this by redefining the figure() function
> in check.m, which is a suboptimal solution.  I am wondering whether it is
> appropriate to change octave-pkg.mk such that the tests would be run under
> xvfb-run.  Do you think it is a good idea?

Would this also work on our porterboxes? I am asking because I would
love to do some work on a porterbox, but I would need some graphical
output for (looking at saved .png images would be enough).

	Thomas