[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695434: octave: Seg fault in __contourc__

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Control: reassign -1 octave 3.6.2-5 
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

* Pierre.St-Laurent@uqar.ca <Pierre.St-Laurent@uqar.ca> [2013-01-03 13:27]:
> Just in case you haven't seen this, it looks like the bug has been (very recently) fixed upstream: 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37891
>
> Also, it turned out the bug was in octave-core, not in octave-java.

Thank you for the info.  I am hereby tagging the bug report accordingly.

Since it is now stated that this is a real problem, which may cause data 
loss to the users, we might raise the severity level and propose a new 
patched version for wheezy, based on:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/704e15f8fecd

What do the other maintainers think?

Rafael