timeline with multiple categories messed up

[Mathias Weyland]

Binary package hint: ploticus

ploticus version 2.33 has a bug which makes multi-dimension timelines impossible to draw. The outline of one bar is always extended to the longest bar. Example:

#proc getdata
data:
    2 5 6 "963"
    1 1 2 "1327"
    2 3 4 "962"

#proc categories
    axis: y
    datafield: 1

#proc areadef
   rectangle: 1 1 9 3
   xautorange: datafield=2,3
   yscaletype: categories

#proc xaxis
   stubs: inc 2 hours

#proc yaxis
   stubs: usecategories

#proc bars
   axis: x
   locfield: 1
   segmentfields: 2 3

I'm going to attach samples of how it looks and how it should look as well as a small patch to fix the problem.

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

I'm sorry this comes late, launchpad was very slow yesterday. Here comes the patch to fix it.

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

Just for the record: This is supposed to be fixed in new upstream version. So this bug can be closed after a check that it really is working now. (I had no time to do that yet)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Colin Tuckley (colint)]

Daniel T Chen wrote:
> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?
>
> ** Changed in: ploticus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

First, please refer to the version number of the package - NOT the version
of the distro when you are talking to the upstream (Debian) package
maintainer since "8.10" is meaningless.

The answer to your question is Yes, it's fixed and the bug should be closed.

In fact the patch shown in that bug report was against ploticus 2.33 which
is very old. The current Debian and Ubuntu versions are based on the
ploticus 2.40 release which don't even have that piece of code!

regards,

Colin

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