Bug#1003395: plfit: under-the-radar numerical issue

[Santiago Vila]

tags 1003395 - ftbfs
tags 1003395 - patch
thanks

El 3/8/24 a las 23:31, Jerome BENOIT escribió:
> I am re-opening the issue because
> it has simply gone under the radar but it is still there.
> 
> The issue is a numerical issue that deserves an appropriate numerical analysis.
> The upstream code currently workarounds by using at some point `long double`.
> This is a very bad numerical practice: all the computation must be made with `double`.
> The issue is actually not numerically trivial. I am on my way to elaborate a numerical fix.

Ok, I would have used a different bug for that myself, but if you want to use
the same bug for the underlying issue, so be it.

Note, however, that the original report said the package FTBFS, which does not
happen anymore, and it had a patch from Ubuntu which will probably not be applied,
so I hope you don't mind if I adjust the metadata accordingly.

Thanks.