Bug#779943: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#779943: octave: Enable large arrays: Build octave such that it can use arrays larger than 2 GB

2015-03-06 Thread John W. Eaton
On 03/06/2015 10:57 AM, Fabrice Allibe wrote: Package: octave Version: 3.8.2-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the size of a single Octave array cannot exceed 2 GB of memory because octave is not built with "--enable-64" flag I'm not disputing that a version of Octave built with 64-bit i

Bug#759426: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#759426: octave-common: includes arch-specific config.log build artifact

2014-08-27 Thread John W. Eaton
On 08/27/2014 04:08 AM, Mike Miller wrote: Package: octave-common Version: 3.8.2-1 Severity: normal Since version 3.8.1, the octave-common package, which is arch:all, now includes /usr/share/octave/$VER/etc/config.log. This file is copied directly from the build tree and contains architecture- a

Bug#714360: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#714360: src:octave: does not work with glpk 4.51-1

2013-06-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 06/28/2013 08:27 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Package: src:octave Version: 3.6.4-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Usertags: glpk Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=39038 Octave 3.6.4 is not compatible with the last version of glpk (4.51-1) which is

Bug#706376: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#706376: Bug#706376: Bug#706376: Bug#706376: Bug#706376: Bug#706376: octave: sparse matrix n*2^16

2013-06-20 Thread John W. Eaton
On 06/19/2013 08:32 PM, David Bateman wrote: On 06/20/2013 01:10 AM, David Bateman wrote: I'd like to add some tests first and see if any other bugs have turned up after this change. For example the changes use made to sprand and sprandn 2 years ago to call randperm also overflows. At the moment

Bug#706376: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#706376: Bug#706376: octave: sparse matrix n*2^16

2013-04-30 Thread John W. Eaton
On 04/30/2013 12:56 PM, Ed Meyer wrote: Not only is it desirable to have sparse and full matrices behave similarly, I believe the user should not need to be aware of which storage format is used so functions like eig() would work for either. The key is to use the C++ class system to have differe

Bug#676800: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#676800: octave-java: completely breaks octave

2012-06-20 Thread John W. Eaton
On 20-Jun-2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Looks like these valgrind errors are generated by the JVM and not by the | java package. They are probably not a cause of concern. | | I don't know how to generate a difference in the valgrind logs, and I | don't have one between OpenJDK 6 and 7. | | T

Bug#676800: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#676800: octave-java: completely breaks octave

2012-06-20 Thread John W. Eaton
On 20-Jun-2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | "John W. Eaton" writes: | | > I'd like to help debug this problem but I need some help. | | Thanks for volunteering! | | > I need to be able to install a debug version of Octave (preferably the | > current development sou

Bug#676800: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#676800: octave-java: completely breaks octave

2012-06-19 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Jun-2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Package: octave-java | Version: 1.2.8-4 | Severity: grave | Tags: sid | | This version of octave-java completely breaks octave. | | For example, if octave-io is also installed, octave miserably fails at launch | time: | | octave: lex.ll :2420 : void h

Bug#650714: libc6: strptime memory access error

2011-12-02 Thread John W. Eaton
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-21 Severity: normal Hi, Compililing the attached program with gcc and running the resulting binary with "valgrind --tool=memcheck" shows teh following errors. Compiling with -DEXTRA=10 to allocate and initialize more space for the first parameter passed to strptime av

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-11-01 Thread John W. Eaton
Hi, Did you see the following message from me? I think I found the reason that libranlib.la is not being built, and a relatively simple fix. jwe On 25-Oct-2011, John W. Eaton wrote: | On 24-Oct-2011, John W. Eaton wrote: | | | On 24-Oct-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | | | | | On Thu, Sep 01

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-10-25 Thread John W. Eaton
On 24-Oct-2011, John W. Eaton wrote: | On 24-Oct-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | | | On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:24:17PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote: | | > > If you don't want to change octlibdir, then you can ch

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-10-24 Thread John W. Eaton
On 24-Oct-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:24:17PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote: | > > If you don't want to change octlibdir, then you can change the lines | > > like | > >

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-09-01 Thread John W. Eaton
On 1-Sep-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:24:17PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote: | | > Is the current problem that the libraries are placed in a directory | > that has a version number in the name, or does dpkg-shlibeps not find | > files in subdirectories of /usr/l

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-08-23 Thread John W. Eaton
On 23-Aug-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:28:54PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote: | > On 19-Aug-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | > | > | The problem is that dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't like the fact that Octave | > | uses normal SONAMEs for its libraries now, but ships

Bug#637787: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

2011-08-22 Thread John W. Eaton
On 19-Aug-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: | The problem is that dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't like the fact that Octave | uses normal SONAMEs for its libraries now, but ships them in a private | path (so dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't find them and aborts). | So, I'm reading through far too many books/tutorials about

Bug#603046: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#603046: Bug#603046: octave3.2: strchr triggers Octave:str-to-num

2010-11-16 Thread John W. Eaton
On 16-Nov-2010, Thomas Weber wrote: | > strchr treats a string as a number implicitly: | > | > k...@raph:~/orion/svn/raph1/octave$ octave | > GNU Octave, version 3.2.4 | > | > octave:1> warning error Octave:str-to-num | > octave:2> strchr("Octave is the best software","best") | > error: impl

Bug#598059: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#598059: octave3.2: axis equal/square incorrect for gnuplot 4.4

2010-09-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 26-Sep-2010, Yann Vernier wrote: | Package: octave3.2 | Version: 3.2.4-7 | Severity: normal | | | There is a bug in handling of 2d plots with Octave 3.2 and Gnuplot 4.4. | | I found that while axis equal or axis square change the plot, both | on screen and in print, it does not calculate the

Bug#541251: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#541251: octave3.2-emacsen hanging at startup

2010-02-23 Thread John W. Eaton
On 12-Aug-2009, Pascal Dupuis wrote: | although there is close to no differences between octave3.0-emacsen | and octave3.2-emacsen, the 3.0 version works without any problems, | while with the 3.2, the message at bottom hangs indefinitelly at 'load | octave-inf'. The only cure is a 'kill -9' of em

Bug#570231: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#570231: octave3.2: Errors in working with complex matrices on i386

2010-02-17 Thread John W. Eaton
On 17-Feb-2010, Steven De Herdt wrote: | While working with complex matrices, I noticed strange things going on. | Some searching showed that there is definitely something wrong: | | octave3.2:2> a=orth(randn(3)); | octave3.2:3> a'*a | ans = | |1.e+00 -1.0742e-16 2.2264e-16 | -1.074

Bug#567975: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#567975: Bug#567975: FP error when filtering an empty vector

2010-02-02 Thread John W. Eaton
On 2-Feb-2010, Thomas Weber wrote: | Attached is a test case for this. No changelog entry, I don't think this | warrants one. I added one anyway. I also added a second test with the empty matrix being 1x0x2. Thanks, jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#567975: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#567975: FP error when filtering an empty vector

2010-02-01 Thread John W. Eaton
On 1-Feb-2010, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: | Octave crashes when trying to filter() an empty vector: | | | octave:1> a=1; b=ones(10,1)/10; foo=filter(b,a,[]); | | panic: Floating point exception -- stopping myself... | | attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... | | save to `octave-core' complet

Bug#567962: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#567962: Bug#567962: needs to be rebuilt against libhdf5-1.8.4

2010-02-01 Thread John W. Eaton
On 1-Feb-2010, Thomas Weber wrote: | On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: | > Hi! | > | > > octave-specfun is currently uninstallable in sid, as it depends on | > > libhdf5-1.8.3, while octave3.2 depends on libhdf5-1.8.4. | > > Please rebuild octave-specfun against libh

Bug#565216: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#565216: octave3.2: hdf5 failure with load()

2010-01-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 14-Jan-2010, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: | On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:19:58PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote: | > On 13-Jan-2010, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: | > | > | As reported in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299876 also in | > | Debian octave there's a probl

Bug#565216: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#565216: octave3.2: hdf5 failure with load()

2010-01-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 13-Jan-2010, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: | As reported in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299876 also in | Debian octave there's a problem in hdf5 format management and that's | very unfortunate because hdf5 is quite an important format. It is best to report generic bugs in Octave di

Bug#565136: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#565136: octave3.2: Function interp3.m not working.

2010-01-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 13-Jan-2010, Jean-S bastien Kroll wrote: | | Branches 3.0 and 3.2 are affected by the same error. In the function | interp3.m, there is a misplaced line break that has it not working at | all. | | Following is the patch modifying the only line to be changed : | | --- /usr/share/octave/3.0.5/

Bug#550823: Updating load-path cache based on modification times probably a bad idea (was: Race condition between Octave 3.2.3 and unlink())

2009-10-21 Thread John W. Eaton
On 20-Oct-2009, Judd Storrs wrote: | If we're already keeping track of when we last read a | directory/file, No, we were keeping track of the timestamp on the directory, and then re-reading the list of files if the timestamp changed. But that fails for a sequence like system ("echo 1+1 > foo.

Bug#550823: Updating load-path cache based on modification times probably a bad idea (was: Race condition between Octave 3.2.3 and unlink())

2009-10-20 Thread John W. Eaton
On 20-Oct-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote: | tir, 20 10 2009 kl. 22:00 +0200, skrev Jaroslav Hajek: | > The problem is in load_path::update, which checks the directory's | > modification time to decide on whether to rescan it. The resolution is | > only in seconds, though. It is possible to get better

Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-17 Thread John W. Eaton
On 16-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Rafael Laboissiere [2009-06-15 21:55]: | | > * John W. Eaton [2009-06-15 13:25]: | > | > > On 15-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > > | > > | Anyway, it is funny to see how long this bug lived in the code and was | &g

Bug#532656: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | Anyway, it is funny to see how long this bug lived in the code and was | just awakened by the crappy mips/mipsel architecture... Also strange that it didn't show up until now, even on mips. Maybe a compiler change? jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#532656: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | Attached below is a patch for pr-output.cc that makes Octave work as | expected for 'complex(NaN,0)' on mips (and amd64 as well, FWIW). The | package is being built right now on mips and on amd64 and, if everything | goes well on both arches, I will upl

Bug#532656: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-12 Thread John W. Eaton
On 11-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * John W. Eaton [2009-06-11 15:42]: | | > Did you compile the simpler program with the same options used to | > build Octave? | | Probably not. | | > Can you run Octave under gdb and find where it hangs, either by | > running | &

Bug#532656: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-11 Thread John W. Eaton
On 11-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * John W. Eaton [2009-06-11 11:27]: | | > So first, can you determine precisely where Octave is actually | > hannging? Does the following program work, or does it also hang in | > the same way? | > | > #include | > #inclu

Bug#532656: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: Bug#532656: octave3.2_3.2.0-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. Segfault in regression test.

2009-06-11 Thread John W. Eaton
On 11-Jun-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Rafael Laboissiere [2009-06-11 16:07]: | | > * Rafael Laboissiere [2009-06-11 01:08]: | > | > > * Peter De Schrijver [2009-06-10 19:40]: | > > | > > > Package: octave3.2 | > > > Version: 3.2.0-1 | > > > Severity: serious | > > > | > > > There wa

Bug#530858: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#530858: octave3.0: Unable to write files bigger than 2Go

2009-05-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 28-May-2009, David Kremer wrote: | My system is unable to write file bigger than 2Go with octave on | i386 platform. | | A script to reproduce it : | | %% octave script %% | fd = fopen( "test.bin" , "wb" ) ; | for k = [ 1:300 ] | fwrite( fd , randn(1024,1024) , "double"); | end ; | fclos

Bug#528230: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#528230: Bug#528230: Bug#528230: Processed: Re: Bug#528230: Error in Octaviz.

2009-05-11 Thread John W. Eaton
On 11-May-2009, Thomas Weber wrote: | On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:33:13PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > * Thomas Weber [2009-05-11 20:25]: | > | > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:24:04PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: | > > > Bug#528230: Error in Octaviz. | > > > Warning: Unknown p

Bug#525113: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#525113: Bug#525113: Bug#525113: Inconsistant complex matrix multiplication

2009-04-22 Thread John W. Eaton
On 23-Apr-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Thomas Weber [2009-04-22 23:04]: | | > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:01:19PM +0200, Laurent Mazet wrote: | > > Package: octave3.0 | > > Version: 1:3.0.1-7 | > > Arch: i386 | > > Severity: grave | > > | > > Hi, | > > | > > I've just realized that I can m

Bug#523042: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#523042: octave3.0: loading a datafile skips every second line

2009-04-08 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Apr-2009, Drew Parsons wrote: | Hi Rafael, thanks for the forthcoming fix to the problem. | | About the severity, I appreciate you need to get the new version across | to testing but I don't think I could justify it with this bug. I agree that we should limit the spread of 3.0.4 as much as

Bug#516136: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516136: Bug#516136: Bug#516136: octave3.1: crash

2009-02-20 Thread John W. Eaton
On 20-Feb-2009, Francesco Potorti` wrote: | Well, it is much simpler than I expected, you do not need to load any | data. This is what I observe: | | | error: fclose: invalid stream number = -1 | error: called from: | error: /usr

Bug#515962: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#515962: [Fwd: Re: Bug#515962: octave3.0-emacsen: octave mode does not respect tab-width]

2009-02-18 Thread John W. Eaton
On 18-Feb-2009, Vladimir Zhuravlev wrote: | I set tab-width to 8, but Octave mode does not care about this. | Then I tell it to indent (say, M-C-q), it uses tabs of two | spaces, | which is _not_ nice. It's not that unfriendly, and it seems to be the same way other modes define indents. They don

Bug#515962: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#515962: octave3.0-emacsen: octave mode does not respect tab-width

2009-02-18 Thread John W. Eaton
On 18-Feb-2009, Vladimir Z wrote: | Package: octave3.0-emacsen | Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny3 | Severity: normal | | The octave mode does respect user's tab-width variable. | in octave-mode.el: | | (defcustom octave-block-offset 2 | "Extra indentation applied to statements in Octave block structu

Bug#514802: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#514802: Bug#514802: Bug#514802: Bug#514802: Bug#514802: octave-symbolic: (un)install accesses user .octave_hist

2009-02-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 13-Feb-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * John W. Eaton [2009-02-13 13:06]: | | > The option --no-history is supposed to mean no history at all. What I | > see is that the history file is not read, and commands are not saved | > to the history list, but then the history (an empty

Bug#514802: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#514802: Bug#514802: Bug#514802: octave-symbolic: (un)install accesses user .octave_hist

2009-02-13 Thread John W. Eaton
the history (an empty list) is still saved to the history file when Octave exits, wiping out whatever was there before. I checked in the following change. Thanks, jwe # HG changeset patch # User John W. Eaton # Date 1234548184 18000 # Node ID afbfd7f4fd931c9460102aec3eb073f78839

Bug#504945: [CHANGESET] Fix compilation with g++ 4.4

2009-01-14 Thread John W. Eaton
On 8-Nov-2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | package octave3.0 | tags 504945 upstream | found 504945 3.0.3-1 | thanks | | The patch attached below fixes Bug#504945 [1] reported against the | octave3.0 Debian package. I confirm that the patch fixes the compilation | with g++ 4.4 of both versions 3

Bug#492992: (no subject)

2008-08-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 30-Jul-2008, Francesco Potorti` wrote: | package octave3.0 | tags 492992 upstream | stop | | Dear Octave maintainers, | | The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | package and regards the upstream sources. The report is recorded at | http://bugs.debian.org/492992 |

Bug#492993: (no subject)

2008-08-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 30-Jul-2008, Francesco Potorti` wrote: | package octave3.0 | tags 492993 upstream | stop | | Dear Octave maintainers, | | The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | package and regards the upstream sources. The report is recorded at | http://bugs.debian.org/492993 |

Bug#492078: octave3.0: cannot change axes location in pcolor

2008-08-22 Thread John W. Eaton
On 22-Aug-2008, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote: | On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | ... | | > set view map | > set x2tics | > splot x+y | > | > does not display the x2 tic labels. I am able to control the x and y | > tics, bu

Bug#492078: octave3.0: cannot change axes location in pcolor

2008-08-22 Thread John W. Eaton
On 27-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Francesco Potorti` wrote: | > package octave3.0 | > tags 492078 upstream | > stop | > | > Dear Octave maintainers, | > | > The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | > package and regards the upstream sources. The report is record

Bug#492223: octave3.0: contourf only accepts vector X and Y if same

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 27-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Francesco Potorti` wrote: | > package octave3.0 | > tags 492223 upstream | > stop | > | > Dear Octave maintainers, | > | > The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | > package and regards the upstream sources. The report is record

Bug#492224: octave3.0: contourf is not documented

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 27-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Francesco Potorti` wrote: | > package octave3.0 | > tags 492224 upstream | > stop | > | > Dear Octave maintainers, | > | > The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | > package and regards the upstream sources. The report is record

Bug#492070: octave3.0: about axes properties in the manual

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 27-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Francesco Potorti` wrote: | > package octave3.0 | > tags 492070 upstream | > stop | > | > Dear Octave maintainers, | > | > The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian | > package and regards the upstream sources. The report is record

Bug#492168: octave3.0: shading doc unclear and poor default shading

2008-07-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 27-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Michael Goffioul wrote: | > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:33 AM, David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> I'm not that much on an expert on the graphics code and what its | >> supposed to do, so don't really know the best clarification for this. If | >> you

Bug#477688: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#477688: Bug#477688: [octave3.0] print()'ing a figure with title or (x|y)labels fails with gdImageStringFT error

2008-04-29 Thread John W. Eaton
On 29-Apr-2008, Thomas Weber wrote: | On 29/04/08 17:18 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: | > Le mardi, 29 avril 2008 17.08:04 Thomas Weber, vous avez écrit : | > > I get the warnings as well, but my plot contains the labels (maybe in a | > > different font, I don't know). | > > | > > Thomas | > | >

Bug#472069: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#472069: Bug#472069: octave3.0: plotyy leaves remains on future graphs

2008-03-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 28-Mar-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Sure I'd suggest sending a message to this list with a title like "Read | this before posting to this group" and give the mailing lists and Nabble | archives as the suggested means of support. OK. I'll draft something and see if I can figure out how to post

Bug#472069: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#472069: Bug#472069: octave3.0: plotyy leaves remains on future graphs

2008-03-28 Thread John W. Eaton
On 28-Mar-2008, David Bateman wrote: | Hey, I didn't look at the bug tracker, it was me who answered Tom on | comp.soft-sys.octave, Are you the only person who reads that? Should we maybe regularly post a mini-FAQ there that says "Don't judge the level of interest in Octave by the level of activ

Bug#418158: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#418158: Bug#418158: Bug#418158: more info

2008-03-03 Thread John W. Eaton
On 29-Feb-2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-24 18:23]: | | > * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-24 12:34]: | > | > > I just tried some values and the limit seems to be poisscdf(604,604), | > > after that the function fails, tha

Bug#461558: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#461558: octave fails to invoke gnuplot

2008-02-14 Thread John W. Eaton
On 14-Feb-2008, Folkert van Heusden wrote: | > > Just tried 3.0 and it gives the same errors: | > > gnuplot> set terminal aqua 1 enhanced | > > ^ | > > line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list | > > | > > | > > gnuplot> plot

Bug#434415: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#434415: octave2.9-headers: Changed F77_FUNC_ macro]

2007-07-24 Thread John W. Eaton
On 24-Jul-2007, Thomas Weber wrote: | Am Montag, 23. Juli 2007 22:12:14 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere: | > - Forwarded message from Kim Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - | > | > From: Kim Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Subject: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#434415: octave2.9-headers: Changed | > F77_FUNC

Bug#418503: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#418503: octave2.9: Must not enter testing

2007-04-10 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Apr-2007, Thomas Weber wrote: | Package: octave2.9 | Version: 2.9.10-4 | Severity: grave | Justification: renders package unusable | | Octave 2.9.10 doesn't play well with the current octave2.9-forge packages in | Debian, so it shouldn't enter testing in the current state. I think this is

Bug#417487: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#417487: FTBFS with GCC 4.3: missing #includes

2007-04-03 Thread John W. Eaton
On 3-Apr-2007, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-02 23:48]: | > Does 2.9.10-3, the version currently in unstable also fail in the same | > way? | | Yes, it does. Hopefully I'll be able to send a patch tomorrow or the | day after. I installed the gcc-sn

Bug#417486: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#417486: FTBFS with GCC 4.3: missing #includes

2007-04-02 Thread John W. Eaton
I expect that some 2.9.x version of Octave will be declared the recommended version of Octave before GCC 4.3 (or maybe even GCC 4.2) is released, so I don't have any plans to fix these problems in my 2.1.x sources. You're of course free to fix them in the Debian packages. I'd be much more interes

Bug#416431: octave2.9-emacsen: replace gnudoit by gnuclient in wrapper scripts

2007-03-29 Thread John W. Eaton
On 29-Mar-2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-29 10:55]: | | > On 28-Mar-2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > | > | package octave2.9-emacsen | > | tags 416431 upstream patch | > | thanks | > | | > | The bug report below was

Bug#416046: octave2.9: pathdef doesn't include dir with info-emacs-info and info-emacs-octave-help

2007-03-29 Thread John W. Eaton
On 28-Mar-2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | package octave2.9 | tags 416046 = upstream patch | thanks | | I am forwarding below a bug report filed against the octave2.9 package in | Debian. The full context can be seen at the Debian BTS [1]. The bug | reporter is correctly complaining that the d

Bug#394982: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#394982: octave2.9: Crashes on "x(:,

2006-10-25 Thread John W. Eaton
On 25-Oct-2006, John W. Eaton wrote: | so it seems OK, but what is happening here: | | octave:1> x = sparse (2,0) | x = Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 2, cols = 0, nnz = 0) | | octave:2> x(:,2,3) = speye (2) | error: A(I, J) = X: can only have 1 or 2 indexes for sparse ma

Bug#394982: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#394982: octave2.9: Crashes on "x(:,

2006-10-25 Thread John W. Eaton
On 26-Oct-2006, David Bateman wrote: | Ok then use the attached patch in addition to the previous patch... It | essentially removes the previous patch and does it differently. | | Note that this is still a very bad idea as it reallocates the memory to | the sparse matrix and every assignment, eve

Bug#391033: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#391033: octave2.9: bad behaviour with hold on/off

2006-10-04 Thread John W. Eaton
try the following patch and let me know if you notice any unexpected side effects from it. Thanks, jwe scripts/ChangeLog: 2006-10-04 John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * plot/__clear_plot__.m: New function. * plot/__setup_plot__.m: Use __clear_plot__. src/ChangeLog: 2006

Bug#387137: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#387137: spkron(a, b) not working when arguments are scalar

2006-09-12 Thread John W. Eaton
On 12-Sep-2006, Thomas Weber wrote: | Hi, | | Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Guilbert: | > Package: octave2.9 | > Version: 2.9.8-1 | > | > Steps to reproduce: | > octave-2.9.8:1> spkron(2,3) | > error: octave_base_value::sparse_matrix_value(): wrong type argument `sca

Bug#362423: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#362219: FTBFS with GCC 4.2: ambiguous overload for 'operator==']

2006-09-05 Thread John W. Eaton
g/362423 Does the following patch help? I think this is how we avoided the problem for 2.9.x. jwe src/ChangeLog: 2006-09-05 John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * load-save.cc (Fsave): Use tellp instead of pubseekoff to determine whether we are at beginning of file.

Bug#368843: Broken info-emacs-info

2006-09-05 Thread John W. Eaton
On 3-Sep-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-03 16:46]: | | > You will find attached below a bug report filed against the Debian package | > octave2.9 regarding the info-emacs-info script. The followups to this bug | > reported can be seen at: | >

Bug#384195: [Pkg-octave-devel]

2006-08-22 Thread John W. Eaton
ons. | Would expect ans==0 I think the result should be an empty matrix of the same size as the argument, which also has the advantage of being compatible with Matlab. Thanks, jwe liboctave/ChangeLog: 2006-08-22 John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * mx-inlines.cc (MX_ND_CUMU

Bug#383149: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#383149: tried purging then reinstalling octave2.9 package

2006-08-17 Thread John W. Eaton
las-3 -lfftw3 -lreadline -lncurses -ldl -lhdf5 -lz -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -lhdf5 -lz -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s $ octave GNU Octave, version 2.9.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). Copyrig

Bug#373965: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#373965: error: `LOADPATH' undefined

2006-06-16 Thread John W. Eaton
). | Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton. | This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. | There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'. | | Additional information about Octave is available at

Bug#361705: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#361705: octave2.1-info: wrong references in Variable index

2006-04-14 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Apr-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | package octave2.1-info | forwarded 361705 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tags 361705 upstream patch | thanks | | | The bug report below was filed against the Debian package octave2.1-info, | version 2.1.72-10. I confirm that the same problems exist for 2.1.73 an

Bug#356194: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#356194: octave2.9: Octave-2.9.4 - random crashes

2006-03-10 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Mar-2006, LUK ShunTim wrote: | I'm experiencing random crashes of octave 2.9.4 on a debian/sid box. I | apt-get the source and rebuild with debug on and here is the backtrace. | | | | $ gdb octave | GNU gdb 6.4-debian | Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GDB is free software,

Bug#352671: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#352671: octave2.9: Control-C sends octave into a busy loop

2006-02-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 13-Feb-2006, Andrey Romanenko wrote: | Package: octave2.9 | Version: 2.9.4-12 | Severity: normal | | If I hit Control-C in an Octave session, the interpreter enters a busy | loop (according to top) and stops responding. A gentle "kill" from | another shell is able to terminate the Octave sessi

Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

2006-01-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Jan-2006, Frederik Eaton wrote: | On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:33:40AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > * Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-09 03:07]: | > | > > You're right, mysql seems to print to stdout, while "perl -d" writes | > > directly to the terminal. In any case, I do

Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

2005-12-05 Thread John W. Eaton
On 4-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote: | On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:17:01AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote: | > On 4-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote: | > | > | By the way, why not have -q be the default when octave is run as part | > | of a script? | > | > What do you mean by &q

Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

2005-12-04 Thread John W. Eaton
On 4-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote: | By the way, why not have -q be the default when octave is run as part | of a script? What do you mean by "as part of a script"? jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

2005-12-03 Thread John W. Eaton
On 3-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote: | Package: octave2.9 | Version: 2.9.4-8 | Severity: normal | | My version of Octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout | instead of stderr... It would be better to have it on stderr so that I | can redirect just the output to a pipe or a file.

Bug#341759: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341759: no obvious way to turn off comment indentation

2005-12-02 Thread John W. Eaton
om its standard setting. | Non-nil means indent line after a semicolon or space in Octave mode. Please try the following patch. Thanks, jwe ChangeLog: 2005-12-02 John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * emacs/octave-mod.el (octave-electric-space): Don't indent co

Bug#341759: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341759: no obvious way to turn off comment indentation

2005-12-02 Thread John W. Eaton
On 2-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote: | Package: octave2.9-emacsen | Version: 2.9.4-8 | Severity: normal | | I have "Auto Indent" set to "off" in the octave customization group | but when I type a "#" character it still ends up indented by 32 | columns. I would like to make octave-mode stop doing

Bug#339442: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#339442: octave2.9: error at startup: __gnuplot_init__ undefined

2005-11-16 Thread John W. Eaton
On 16-Nov-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | [Please, keep Cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | * John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-16 12:49]: | | > OK, I will fix this by generating this PKG_ADD file differently so we | > avoid problems related to creating a package by running

Bug#339442: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#339442: octave2.9: error at startup: __gnuplot_init__ undefined

2005-11-16 Thread John W. Eaton
On 16-Nov-2005, Alberto Maurizi wrote: | On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:48:57PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > Thanks for the extra-info. What do you get for this: | > | > echo "which gplot" | octave-2.9.4 -q | > | | here it is: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ echo "which gplot" | octave

Bug#335237: [Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Forking glpk

2005-11-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Nov-2005, Falk Hueffner wrote: | The difference is that the *ABI* changes frequently. I think that happens for a lot of software. | This will break horribly if the headers become out of sync with the | library. You absolutely need to provide matching headers. Yes, of course. So maybe a d

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-14 02:07]: | | > On 10-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | > | > | John, could you please confirm that this would fix the bug? | > | > Looking at the code, I think it will avoid the

Bug#327509: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327509: octave2.1-headers: mkoctfile generates broken binaries ("undefined symbol: _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE")

2005-09-14 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Sep-2005, Graeme Smecher wrote: | Package: octave2.1-headers | Version: 2.1.71-2 | Severity: important | | mkoctfile no longer produces working .oct files. I've tried compiling | the hello.cc example: | | mkoctfile hello.cc | | The mkoctfile command appears to succed. Then: | | $

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-13 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | John, could you please confirm that this would fix the bug? Looking at the code, I think it will avoid the problem. Thanks, jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Sep-2005, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: | Here is the build with g++-3.4. It is worse than with g++-4.0 (6 | failures instead of 2). Odd. My results were: 3.3: all tests pass 3.4: all tests pass 4.0: 1 failed (FAIL: octave.test/arith/coth-1.m) My system is Debian testing, updated to t

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Sep-2005, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: | > Is libstdc++ also completely compatible? Have there been absolutely | > no changes that could affect layout of class members? | | This question is no longer a concern since my tests have shown that g++ | 3.4 is worse than g++ 4.0. But unless we are abs

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Sep-2005, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: | Too bad :<. Did you submit bugs to the gcc or Debian BTS (I looked | rapidly and did not find a relevant bug) ? No, sorry, I didn't. | g++ 3.4 could also be used as a fallback since it is ABI-compatible with | g++ 4.0. Is libstdc++ also completely compa

Bug#327027: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327027: octave2.1: not installable in sid

2005-09-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 7-Sep-2005, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: | octave needs to be recompiled with g++ 4.0 and a newer libhdf5: The last time I tried compiling Octave with g++ 4.0 (actually 4.0.1), Octave failed several of its tests. So maybe g++ 4.0 is not quite ready yet? jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#327302: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#327302: octave-forge: not installable on unstable

2005-09-09 Thread John W. Eaton
On 9-Sep-2005, Juergen Rinas wrote: | octave-forge | depends on libginac1.3 (>= 1.3.0) | but is not avaiable in unstable | due to C++ ABI transition A C++ ABI transition will likely cause some trouble for Octave as well. Does anyone have a suggestion for what the best solution is? jwe -- To

Bug#324471: octave2.1-emacsen: problems if octave startup file contains cd()

2005-08-31 Thread John W. Eaton
I applied this change to my sources. Would you please also report this to the Emacs maintainers so that the version of octave-inf that is distributed with Emacs can also be fixed? Thanks, jwe On 27-Aug-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | package octave2.1-emacsen | tags 324471 upstream | forwar

Bug#253188: [Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Bug#253188: octave2.1: Keyword end confuses octave-mode.el

2005-03-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Mar-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | package octave2.1-emacsen | tags 253188 fixed-upstream | thanks | | * John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-15 00:14]: | | > Note that Emacs also includes the code for Octave mode, so we should | > probably t

Bug#253188: [Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Bug#253188: octave2.1: Keyword end confuses octave-mode.el

2005-03-14 Thread John W. Eaton
On 4-Mar-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-07 15:18]: | | > On 7-Jun-2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > | On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:19:10PM -0400, D. Goel wrote:

Bug#296375: [bill@givebillmoney.com: Bug#296375: octave2.1: strftime crashes with an invalid structure as an argument]

2005-02-22 Thread John W. Eaton
I chose a slightly different solution. jwe src/ChangeLog: 2005-02-22 John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * oct-map.cc (Octave_map::intfield, Octave_map::stringfield): New functions. * oct-map.h: Provide decls. * DLD-FUNCTIONS/time.cc (extract_tm): Use

Bug#296376: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#296376: octave2.1-emacsen: Emacs indents the comments immediately under a function too much

2005-02-21 Thread John W. Eaton
On 21-Feb-2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Designed that way, as I recall. Try ## to enfore beginning-of-line. Yes, it's similar to the Emacs mode for editing Lisp: # in line comment aligned to the same column at the left of the code ##code level indented comment

Bug#293562: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293562: octave2.1-doc: Provide a pdf version

2005-02-21 Thread John W. Eaton
On 21-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If nobody objects, I am going to | replace the PS files by the PDF files in the octave2.1-doc package. I don't object. I've been thinking of adding a PDF version of the manual to the core distribution. Now I've done that. I also a

Bug#293235: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293235: octave2.1-emacsen: hangs Emacs

2005-02-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Feb-2005, Francesco Potorti` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >If you change the prompt for Octave, you'll need to modify the Emacs | >variable inferior-octave-prompt. | | I see. I should have realized that before... | | >The default definition is: | > | > (

Bug#293235: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293235: octave2.1-emacsen: hangs Emacs

2005-02-12 Thread John W. Eaton
On 4-Feb-2005, Francesco Potorti` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ok, I found some more info. | | First of all, it happens in some particular cases, so it should probably | be demoted from important to normal. | | Second, it could be that the problem existed even in previous versions, | because I

Bug#290470: octave2.1: Octave's bug_report needs emacs or $EDITOR

2005-01-18 Thread John W. Eaton
On 18-Jan-2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I don't really know either, or I would have suggested it. We, as you know, | try to get by without environment variables. A Debian-only fix therefore | would be to talk to /usr/bin/sensible-editor, which is guaranteed to be | present.

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