Re: Aw: Re: The octave-unstable PPA

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 14 mai 2013 à 14:39 -0400, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> On 05/14/2013 02:12 PM, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> >
> >> Which one is that?
> >
> > well, simple typo :)
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/correct_typos;h=37f7a51200237cc749d00c289f42e49d2c9893b5;hb=HEAD

That one should indeed have been forwarded by us (the Debian
maintainers).

> > fixed in default, not in stable?
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/contourc-stack-overflow.diff;h=4a749d55e58eb48eca19c72e02b7619b947bd197;hb=HEAD

> I haven't looked at the details of this report, but not every problem 
> should be fixed on stable, so if the decision was made that it should be 
> fixed on default and that was done, then I still consider the problem fixed.

Indeed this is a patch that we backported to 3.6.4, because it was
considered serious enough for us (it was a serious problem to at least
one of our users).

> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/dont_set_helvetica-3.1.diff;h=62297c9806f30e49577628f910ed3eb8d72455d0;hb=HEAD
> 
> Is there an Octave bug report for this one?  I remember this problem 
> being discussed, so another possibility is that the Debian patch is 
> obsolete because the problem was fixed in some other way in Octave.  I 
> see that we set the default font to "*" in graphics.h.in (graphics.in.h 
> on the default branch).

I don’t know much about that one, sorry.

> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/add_info_dir_categories;h=68920c9d83611a73a75cf1cec2c40604f9f04d00;hb=HEAD
> 
> The FAQ is no longer part of the Octave documentation.

Actually the patch adds the category to the 3 documents (octave.info,
liboctave.info and the FAQ). We should forward it too.

> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/texinfo5.diff;h=79dd464254f830ca825f99fc3b769439f5e20d60;hb=HEAD
> 
> I thought the Texinfo 5 problems had already been fixed in Octave's sources.

Yes they are fixed on the development branch. This patch is a backport
fix for 3.6.4 (this was needed because Texinfo 5 recently hit Debian
unstable).


So indeed we forgot (or did not have the time) to forward a few patches
to the Octave developers. But in the majority of cases, we forward bug
reports and patches. The cooperation between Octave developers and
Debian maintainers is IMHO quite good, thanks in particular to the work
of Jordi who keeps a vigilant eye on Debian packaging and bug reports.

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