expected failures in tests?

[Thomas Weber]

On 04/05/08 04:46 -0700, N. B. wrote:
> Hello,
> I've just built octave 3.0.1. 
> (Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, but gcc is 4.3, etc.)
> After "make check" it has passed all the tests. Normally it is a good thing, right? But at the end of the test report, it says
> "
> There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).
> 
> Expected failures are known bugs. Please help improve
> Octave by contributing fixes for them.
> "
> So, what's wrong? What could be the cause of this "unexpected success"? :)

Ehm, isn't the above message clear? These bugs are known, but nobody
came around to fix them (time, priority, the usual suspects ...). So,
be invited to have a look at them and try to fix them. 

AFAIR, both of them were actually corner cases, so it doesn't seem to
hinder people in their day-to-day work.

	Thomas