[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#373194: octave-forge: pwelch while checking for some arguments

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave-forge
Version: 2006.03.17-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge/signal/pwelch.m

Contrary to what the docs say, pwelch cannot be given default values for
the 7th and 8th arguments.  This call fails:

pwelch (yy,[],1000,[],[],0,[],[],'linear')

The reason is the curious algorithm that is used to check arguments,
that fails if a string argument is given the default value [].

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30-pre2-pr-hrt-1kHz-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages octave-forge depends on:
ii  fftw3              3.0.1-14              library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack 3.0.20000531a-6       library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6              2.3.6-13              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcln4            1.1.11-1              Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libgcc1            1:4.1.0-4             GCC support library
ii  libgfortran0       4.0.3-3               Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.3c2a     1.3.4-1               The GiNaC symbolic framework (runt
ii  libgmp3c2          4.1.4-11              Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgsl0            1.8-1                 GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -- li
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6 1.6.5-2               Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6            1:1.0.0-3             X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62          6b-13                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5        5.5-2                 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libnetcdf3         3.6.0+3.6.1-beta3-0.1 An interface for scientific data a
ii  libpcre3           6.4-2                 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.8rel-5.1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5          2003.1-1              Calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5       5.1-7                 GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6             1:1.0.0-4             X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6         4.1.0-4               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6           2:1.0.0-6             X11 client-side library
ii  octave2.1          1:2.1.73-8            GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3 [libblas. 1.2-8                 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3-11            compression library - runtime

octave-forge recommends no packages.

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