On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Josué Ortega <josueort...@debian.org.gt> wrote:
> 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 > > Hi Stuart, Finally I've packaged oct2py since upstream has made many changes. I want to ask you if you are interested in sponsor it Here is the VCS url: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/oct2py/ and the mentors url: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/oct2py/oct2py_2.3.0-1.dsc 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
