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

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2013-01-03 20:14]:
> Le jeudi 03 janvier 2013 à 15:17 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>
> > 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?
>
> I don't think this bug causes data losses (which corresponds to severity 
> "grave" or "critical"), unless I am missing something. It rather causes 
> crashes in very specific conditions, which is a different thing.

Data loss is perhaps not the appropriate term.  What I meant is that 
users can launch Octave for a series of computations that may last for 
a long time and then loose their work due to a crash.

> I don't even think it is of severity important (and therefore I don't 
> think it is eligible for an unblock). But I won't object if you want to 
> try.

Fair enough.  I would also prefer not putting much energy on this, since 
it appears to be a corner case.

Rafael