Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:50 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Why don't I upload with your patch, and wait for Dan Wheeler to make a new release rather than packaging a snapshot? Up to you of course, but I'd actually forget my patch and upload a snapshot right now and

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, and with the squeeze freeze on the way, I'll try to get to this sooner rather than later. Or, since I'm no longer a user of this package, feel free to change the Maintainer to pkg-scicomp or something similar, with me and you as Uploaders, and upload

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:29 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, and with the squeeze freeze on the way, I'll try to get to this sooner rather than later. Or, since I'm no longer a user of this package, feel free to change the Maintainer to pkg-scicomp or something

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Why don't I upload with your patch, and wait for Dan Wheeler to make a new release rather than packaging a snapshot? Up to you of course, but I'd actually forget my patch and upload a snapshot right now and then upload the new tarball when it appears. It's not as if

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
severity 535318 important forwarded 535318 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=28092 thanks This is important, but not grave -- the package has other users who haven't run into this problem, and data loss generally refers to corrupting or erasing on-disk data. Thanks for the

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Lamb
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Thanks for the report, forwarded it upstream. Hm, I don't see it on the link you've specified. Can you even reproduce it? Running through my schroots, I spot a pattern: sid-amd64 pass sid-i386 fail squeeze-amd64 pass squeeze-i386 fail lenny-amd64

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 535318 + patch thanks Chris Lamb wrote: Can you even reproduce it? Traceback (and patch) attached, but that's only because I'm stubborn. The real solution is to package an upstream snapshot. Upstream is not dead, they just haven't made a release in a while. Plus (as Oz is finding out)

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-08-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hi Chris, On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:55 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Thanks for the report, forwarded it upstream. Hm, I don't see it on the link you've specified. Yeah, SF seems to be having email trouble. It's that (1) link in August -- but it's currently broken. I

Bug#535318: python-sparse: Crashes and looses data, when try A.put(val, a, b) on existing matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Oz N
Package: python-sparse Version: 1.0.1-5+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I installed python-and often when I ran code involvind it, it causes segmentation faults. I hope this helps, Thanks, Oz. here's an example which causes that: from numpy import * from pysparse