Bug#529049: ITP: octave-bugfix-3.0.5 -- bug fixes for some functions of Octave 3.0.5

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

+ Rafael Laboissiere (Sun, 17 May 2009 15:31:51 +0200):

Hello!

> * Package name    : octave-bugfix-3.0.5
>   Version         : 1.0
>   Upstream Author : The Octave Forge Community <octave-dev@lists.sf.net>  
> * URL             : http://octave.sourceforge.net/bugfix-3.0.5
> * License         : GPL-3+
>   Programming Lang: Octave
>   Description     : bug fixes for some functions of Octave 3.0.5

> This package overrides some functions included with the 3.0.5 release
> that contain minor bugs.  (In this version, just a fixed version of
> intersect.m is included.)

Out of curiosity, what's the use case for having this as a separate
package? Would one ever want to run octave3.0 without these fixes? If
not, why would you not ship them directly as patches in the octave3.0
source package?

Thanks,

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