[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#299510: octave-forge: Minimize failed

[Loic Le Guyader]

Package: octave-forge
Version: 2004.11.16-3
Severity: important

This simple thing should work:
octave2.1:1> minimize('sin',1)
error: setfields: called with odd number of arguments

But it doesn't! 

According to
http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2004/msg01370.html

It's more than 6 months that this problem exist, and it's still
doesn't work in testing! 

It's a bit annoying!

Anyway, thanks for the great work you do.

Have a nice day.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave-forge depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-11        Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-5 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcln3                  1.1.9-1         Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libg2c0                  1:3.3.5-8       Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-6       GCC support library
ii  libginac1.3              1.3.0-2         The GiNaC framework (runtime libra
ii  libgmp3                  4.1.4-5         Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgsl0                  1.6-1           The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 [ 1.6.2-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5              5.4-4           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5                2003.1-1        Calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline4             4.3-11          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-8       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  octave2.1                2.1.64-1        The GNU Octave language for numeri
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-6           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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