[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#594906: Bug#594906: update octave-nan and bug fix

[Alois Schlögl <alois.schloegl@gmail.com>]

On 08/30/2010 10:14 PM, Thomas Weber wrote:

Hi Alois,

thanks for caring about your software in distributions.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Alois Schlögl wrote:
  

Version 1.0.9 is really outdated and contains a bug.
e.g. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30905
    

Is there something more critical than this bug fixed? Debian is in
freeze right now, so getting a new version into the next stable version
is difficult, unless:
 - the change is small (which ususally rules out a new upstream release)
 - the bug is critical.

  

The bug was fixed in Oct 2009, and several new releases of octave-nan  
have been made.
    

That's strange. I uploaded 1.0.9 at the end of december and I'm
reasonably sure that was the latest version I found at Sourceforge back
then.

Some information about 'watch' files: we use them to check upstream's
pages automatically for updates. In the case of NaN, Sourceforge still
lists 1.0.9 as the latest release.

  

It seems the debian watch file for octave-nan is also broken:

http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/report.php?package=octave-nan&Display=Submit+Query

• Name: octave-nan
• Pop Inst:
• Upstream version: none
• Debian version: 1.0.9-1
• Last time checked: 2010-08-29 06:16:05
• Last time found up to date: 2010-08-29 06:16:05
• Total continuous failures: 42
• Tot Upstream Bugs: 0
• Avg days opened: 0
• Distrib: unstable
• Watch: view
• Uscan errors:
  uscan.pl warning: In watchfile /tmp/octave-nan_watchpNjOQe, reading webpage
  http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html failed: 404 Not Found
• Copyright: view

Alois