[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#743672: octave: save -ascii ignores save_precision

[Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>]

Package: octave
Version: 3.8.1-1+b1
Severity: normal

octave> format long
octave> a=1234567890123
a =  1234567890123
octave> save a a
octave> save -ascii a a
octave> quit
$ cat a
 1.23456789e+12

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless             2:1.7-51
ii  libamd2.3.1                      1:4.2.1-3
ii  libarpack2                       3.1.5-2
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.1-4
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-7
ii  libc6                            2.18-4
ii  libcamd2.3.1                     1:4.2.1-3
ii  libccolamd2.8.0                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcholmod2.1.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcolamd2.8.0                   1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcxsparse3.1.2                 1:4.2.1-3
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.2-4
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.2-4
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6                     2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.8.2-16
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         10.1.0-4
ii  libglpk36                        4.53-2
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.0-2
ii  libgomp1                         4.8.2-16
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3             1.3.18-1
ii  libgraphicsmagick3               1.3.18-1
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.5.0-2
ii  liboctave2                       3.8.1-1+b1
ii  libqhull6                        2012.1-4
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-1
ii  libqscintilla2-11                2.8.1-1
ii  libqt4-network                   4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii  libqtcore4                       4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii  libqtgui4                        4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii  libstdc++6                       4.8.2-16
ii  libumfpack5.6.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-1
ii  octave-common                    3.8.1-1
ii  texinfo                          5.2.0.dfsg.1-2

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot-x11     4.6.5-1
ii  libatlas3-base  3.10.1-4
ii  pstoedit        3.62-1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
ii  octave-doc      3.8.1-1
ii  octave-htmldoc  3.8.1-1
ii  octave-info     3.8.1-1

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