Re: address@hidden: Bug#418158: octave2.9: poissinv error]

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Apr-2007, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

| >I don't plan to fix this problem myself, but would consier patches to
| >libcruft/slatec-fn/d9lgit.f or related subroutines.
| 
| That would be a difficult job for me.  But if this bug gets registered
| somewhere, maybe someone else will notice and correct it.

[I'm moving this part of the discussion to the maintainers list. --jwe]

I think this is a good time to start discussing what we can do about
bug tracking for Octave.  Up until now, I've been happy to deal with
bugs just by keeping a folder of messages sent to the address@hidden
mailing list.  When a bug is fixed or I don't plan to fix it myself,
I delete the message.  But then we don't really have a useful public
record of bugs that have been reported bug not fixed.

Do people on the list have any suggestions for good bug tracking
software?  I'd like to be able to interact with it via email, but the
archive of bugs should be accessible on the web.

It seems that the Debian bug tracking system might have what we need.
Is it easy to use the Debian bug tracking system outside of the
Debiain project?  How easy/hard is it to setup and maintain?  Is there
something better?

Thanks,

jwe