[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-ltlfat 1.4.4-1

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2014-05-10 12:32]:

> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 12:50:40AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> The package is prepared in Git and its ITP is Bug#747039.
>>
>> This package is quite large and complex.  It seems to work for me, but I did 
>> not test it thoroughly.  Unfortunately, the upstream package has no unit 
>> test suite.
>
> (Complex + no unit tests) is a very unfortunate combination of features. 
> I also wonder why the package includes some well-known external header 
> files in src/thirdparty (like fftw3.h)? Do you use the package in your 
> daily work? Otherwise, if we have a package that none of us uses and 
> that has not unit tests, we will have difficulties in ensuring a 
> reasonable quality.

I am currently using LTFAT in my research work.  Large time-frequency 
analyis and dimensional reduction are very hot topics currently in 
digital signal processing.  I will commit on maintaining this package.

Rafael