[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#502110: octave3.0: errorbar fails because of bug, with patch

[Francesco Potortì]

>> Package: octave3.0
>> Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: upstream
>> 
>> errobar fails on some inputs because of a bug in __errplot__.m, where an
>> if statement makes string comparison checks using ==.  I corrected that
>> by using a switch statement instead.  I am sending this to the Debian
>> bug report system because the correction is simple to backport.
>
>did this patch ever make it into Octave?
>
>http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-October/007108.html

No, but a different one did.  The repository contains a patched version
of __errplot__.m.  I have not checked it, though, and I do not know
whether would work with 3.0.1, even though I think it likely would.

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