Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 3.8.0-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2013-12-23 19:15]:
> [snip]
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> Here is a partial report for official Debian package of 3.8.0-rc2.
>
> [snip]
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>  libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst ...................... PASS   18/21   FAIL 3
>  scripts/gui/uimenu.m ................................... PASS    0/3    FAIL 3
>  scripts/plot/util/allchild.m ........................... PASS    2/3    FAIL 1
>  scripts/plot/util/findall.m ............................ PASS    0/1    FAIL 1
>  scripts/plot/util/graphics_toolkit.m ................... PASS    0/2    FAIL 2
>
> Those 10 failures are due to not having DISPLAY set, so no worry.

I am wondering whether the tests could be run under Xvfb, along the lines 
I suggested in this thread:

https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-September/036470.html

Rafael