[Pkg-octave-devel] First builds of octave-interval: the good, the bad, the ugly

[Oliver Heimlich]

Hi,

octave-interval has been uploaded to unstable. Awesome!

I have checked the build logs:

[arm64, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips64el, ppc64el]
- no problems detected

[alpha, armel]
- Rounding mode switches don't work, package detects this at runtime and
uses a fallback mechanism -> good

[hppa, powerpc, ppc64, s390x]
- bit(un)pack functions don't work as expected -> looks like
little/big-endian confusion

[alpha]
- There is an error with the ceil function from octave core -> problem?
- other tests don't get executed after failure -> need to fix this in
the package build script.

There is a new upstream version 1.3.0, which is already in Alioth. Also
I plan to release a version 1.4.0 soon. So, how should I proceed? Can I
reproduce the little-big-endian issue with qemu? If so I will try to fix
it, make the 1.4.0 release and then upload it as a new debian package.

Best
Oliver