On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Josué, > > thanks for the follow-up! > > > Sadly the current version released by upstream does not work with Octave > > 3.8 which > > is the latests version of Octave in Sid. > > interesting... I used your package on sid the other day with no issues in > an > ipython notebook. Maybe I was just lucky in the relatively small set of > features that I was using. > > BTW this means that the package isn't running the test suite at build > time... > but from the bug report you linked to, I assume that the test suite doesn't > completely pass in any case. It would be good if you could run the test > suite > at build time, marking the known-failing tests as xfail so that they can > fail > gracefully but any further failures would be caught. That's right, the mentors version has a dh_override_auto_test, I have removed it the version without the override is on http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/oct2py/ Even better would be to > also add some autopkgtest tests to the package so that the tests can be > run on > ci.debian.net every time a new octave version appears to make sure things > don't break without someone noticing. > I will take your advice, thanks :) > > > It seems that upstream is working on that [0], I will have the package > > ready when > > the issue is closed. > > the upstream bug is closed but I'm not sure how large the patch was to fix > it > or if it would be possible to apply it to 1.3.0. If you're keen, you could > investigate that... but I perfectly understand waiting for upstream to > release > their next version. > Yeah it's closed but I don't see any commits related. I'll be watching the upstream repo if he commits the fix I'll evaluate if it's better apply the patch to 1.3.0 or wait for the next release > > cheers > Stuart > > -- > Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net > Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org > GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 > Cheers -- Josue Ortega Happy Hacking http://josueortega.org PGP key 4096R/AB4AFD3F 2012-08-20 Fingerprint = 7733 B328 D279 5F5B E232 5ADD 0150 9D5C AB4A FD3F
