[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#618593: Bug#618593: octave3.2: fix saving/loading of constant ranges

[Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org>]

package: octave3.2
tags 618593 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:19:32PM +0100, Kim Hansen wrote:
> Package: octave3.2
> Version: 3.2.4-8
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> If I save the output of ones(1,2) octave will load it back as an empty range.
> 
> This has been fixed upstream in http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/rev/d899b2ee6a37.

According to the discussion at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30289, this
patch might break loading of files saved with earlier Octave versions
(in our case, that means every earlier 3.2 release). 

I haven't looked too deeply at it, because I'm already swamped as is.

	Thomas