[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#444420: octave2.9: Problem when mixing range and sparse in 2.9.14

[Kim Hansen]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 1:2.9.14-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


The bug is described here:
 https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2007-September/003269.html

This is the error:
octave:3> [1:2; sparse(1,2)]
error: octave_base_value::sparse_matrix_value(): wrong type argument
`range'
octave:3>

Patches to fix it can be found here:
 https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/attachments/20070928/35718ff4/attachment.ksh
 https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/attachments/20070926/57911870/attachment.ksh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1050, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-3dnow [liblapac 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2 [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                  3.1.2-2           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                  2.6.1-5           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.17.0-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.2.1-5         GCC support library
ii  libglpk0               4.22-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20070908-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.3-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-7          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.1-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-6.1         collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                4.8.dfsg.1-6      Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave2.9 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.0-4    A command-line driven interactive 

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