[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#661123: Bug#661123: octave-optim: `fminbnd' undefined

[Sébastien Villemot]

tags 661123 + confirmed
thanks

Martin Holters <holters at hsu-hh.de> writes:

> calling fmin results in
>
> error: `fminbnd' undefined near line 20 column 8
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/optim-1.0.17/fmin.m at line 20, column
> 6
>
> as fminbnd has been removed from upstream octave-optim in 1.0.15. The upstream
> removal is due to the fact that fminbnd was moved into Octave core with octave
> 3.4. However, this leaves Octave on Debian without fminbnd (and hence a broken
> fmin) until a newer version of Octave makes it into Debian. In the meantime, a
> reasonable solution might be to include fminbnd.m from octave-optim 1.0.12 in
> the Debian package.

Thanks for your report.

We are now working on packaging Octave 3.6.1, which should enter
unstable soon (Octave 3.4.3 is already in experimental, see [1]).

Then we will upload a new version of octave-optim depending on Octave
3.6, and this will fix this bug.

In the meantime, you can probably downgrade to an older version of
octave-optim, see [2].

Best,

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/octave.html
[2] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/octave-optim

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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