Re: [Pysparse-developers] Bug from Debian user

[Adam C P. IV <haz...@de...>]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:14 -0400, Dominique Orban wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Adam C Powell IV <haz...@de...>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 12:12 -0400, Dominique Orban wrote:
>         > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Adam C Powell IV
>         <haz...@de...>
>         > wrote:
>         >         Hi,
>         >
>         >         The following segfault-inducing code came in from a
>         user
>         >         (details at
>         >         http://bugs.debian.org/535318 ):
>         >
>         >         from numpy import *
>         >         from pysparse import *
>         
>         [snip]
>         >         Segmentation fault
>         >
>         >         Any ideas?  Bug in user's code, pysparse, or Debian
>         packaging?
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks for the report. Lots of bugs in user's code. Still
>         Pysparse
>         > should not have crashed with a segfault. I have now added
>         appropriate
>         > argument checking.
>         
>         
>         Thank you.  Any idea when a new release might happen?
> 
> 
> I updated the Pysparse svn repository earlier today (revision 124).
> Oz's code now terminates with appropriate error messages. What is best
> for you? Are you able to grab the svn tree to package the source into
> a deb or would you rather a tar.gz of the source tree? I admit I've
> been relying on svn so far and haven't released the source tree much.

I'd be happy to package the SVN tree, I do that also for Elmer.  But an
occasional release would be nice, whenever is convenient for you.
 
>         > The user who reported the bug is also the author of the Deb
>         package.
>         > He says he will fix the package soon.
>         
>         
>         Sorry I wasn't clear: the package author is me, the user who
>         reported
>         this is Oz Nahum (or Nahum Oz?).
> 
> 
> Ah I misunderstood that. Oz was trying to package Pysparse into a deb
> at some point, which is why I thought he was still the package author.
> Thank you for your help. I'll mention on the website that a deb is now
> available.

Great, thanks.  My .deb has been in unstable for almost three years now,
and released as part of Lenny (5.0).  I think it's also been in Ubuntu
universe since Hardy Heron (8.04), maybe even Gutsy Gibbon (7.10).

-Adam
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