Bug#689453: Pre-approval request, Gnuplot 4.6.1 for Wheezy

[Anton Gladky]

Thanks, Torquil, for the information.

Dear release-team, would you agree to unblock
Gnuplot 4.6.1 for the Wheezy, if it will be packaged?
Announcement has the following information [1].

		   GNUPLOT VERSION 4.6.1
	    ===================================

This is an incremental release of gnuplot version 4.6 containing various bug
fixes and a couple of new features.

A synopsis of changes since the previous patchlevel (version 4.6.0)
is given below and in the NEWS file.  Detailed information is in ChangeLog.

New features, changes and fixes since gnuplot version 4.6.0
===========================================================

* NEW syntax hints inside Emacs gnuplot-mode
* NEW support tabulation (set table) of pixel values from image plot styles
* NEW support tabulation of variable color column
* CHANGE emf output modified for better compatibility with MS Office programs
* CHANGE canvas terminal loads appropriate font file for UTF-8 encoding
* CHANGE skip execution of empty iteration loops in set and do commands
* CHANGE build scripts modified to accommodate automake 1.12
* CHANGE new policy: objects given in screen coords are not clipped to graph
* CHANGE Draw the z-axis label at a fixed distance to the left of the z-axis
* CHANGE "unset object N" succeeds even if there is currently no object N
* FIX margin space required for rotated axis tic labels
* FIX check for NaN values in binary input
* FIX backslash handling in enhanced text strings
* FIX cairo terminals sometimes lost the line segment before a polygon
* FIX interactive toggle of multiplots in svg
* FIX failure to balance {} if an input file did not end with a newline
* FIX strlen() and substring operators correctly handle UTF-8
* FIX initialization of history when configured --with-readline=bsd
* FIX set term cairolatex pdf mono
* FIX palette-related corruption in some cairolatex output
* FIX preserve number of active call arguments across a nested call command
* FIX wxt terminal mutex protecting execution of the command list
* FIX apply clipping to the interior fill of circles and ellipses
* FIX corruption of weights used for plotting with smooth acsplines
* FIX skip columnheader line when applying "every" filter
* FIX handle out-of-range pm3d values when cb axis is set to log scale
* FIX top/bottom color distinction in hidden3d when not using palette/RGB colors
* FIX allow toggling on/off of more than 10 plots in windows terminal
* FIX color printing from windows terminal
* FIX set term win font ",<size>"
* FIX incorrect return for acos(x) when imag(x) > 0 (bug present since v3.7)
      incorrect return for asin(x) when imag(x) > 0 (bug in 4.4.4, 4.6.0)
      incorrect asinh(x) when real(x) < 0 && imag(x) == 0 (bug in 4.4.4, 4.6.0)
* FIX keep sufficient precision in canvas and svg coords to report time in msec
* FIX the input buffer was not always extended correctly inside a { clause }
* FIX some cairolatex set_color requests were being ignored
* FIX calculated value of kernel density mean and sigma
* FIX emf terminal dashed line support

Thanks,

Anton



2012/10/2 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil at gmail.com>:
> Package: gnuplot
> Version: 4.6.0-8
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please package 4.6.1, since it has some useful bug fixes.
>
> Best regards
> Torquil Sørensen