[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-ltlfat 1.4.4-1
Thomas Weber
tweber at debian.org
Sat May 10 10:32:59 UTC 2014
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
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