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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 18 février 2010 à 10:38 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> 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. 
Don't worry. I didn't take that a critique... ;)
I am not the previous maintainer of 3.6.X family.


> 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 agree but I had plenty of problems before providing it widely.

> > 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. 
Great. Many thanks for this feedback!

Sylvestre