[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#517826: Bug#517826: Status of this bug?

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09:40AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le jeudi 18 février 2010 à 09:43 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > what's the status of this bug? Right now, using libatlas3gf-sse2 with
> > complex aritmethics leads to blatantly flase result, see
> > http://bugs.debian.org/570231
> > 
> > Frankly, looking at the age of this bug, I'd say releasing Squeeze
> > without the sse2 library would be far better than silently shipping it.
> The on-going work on atlas is done in Debian experimental.

The above wasn't meant as critique on your work; I know that Atlas isn't
the easiest package. 

But *if* the 3.6 version of Atlas ships with Debian, you can't use it at
all for any serious work with bugs like the above.

> I am waiting for atlas to build on all debian archs:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?suite=experimental&p=atlas
> to see if it successes on every platform. It results are good, I am
> going to upload it into unstable which should close a lot of bugs in
> atlas.

I just tested Octave with 3.8 and it seems to work fine. 

Thanks
	Thomas