[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#714360: Bug#714360: src:octave: does not work with glpk 4.51-1

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/28/2013 08:27 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Package: src:octave
> Version: 3.6.4-3
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> Usertags: glpk
> Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=39038
>
> Octave 3.6.4 is not compatible with the last version of glpk (4.51-1) which is
> currently in experimental. Some obsolete functions were removed from glpk, but
> Octave still uses them.
>
> As a consequence, the configure script of Octave fails to detect glpk (but
> Octave nevertheless compiles), and the resulting Octave binary does not have
> the functionality provided by the glpk.m function. I attach a build log for
> reference.
>
> The severity of this bug report will be raised when the new version of glpk is
> uploaded to unstable.

I looked at this problem in the last few days.  My assessment was that 
an expert in glpk could probably make the changes fairly quickly, but it 
does not look something I could do in a few hours.  The API has changed 
in ways that make it non-obvious to me exactly what changes we need to 
make.  It's not a simple matter of changing the names of a few functions.

jwe