Public bug reported:

>From upstream:

"I've discovered a bug in Lapack 3.4, which affects all recent versions
of Armadillo. I do not know whether the bug is present in other versions
of Lapack. It seems that Octave and SciPy developers also ran into this
bug.

Specifically, the bug is in the API documentation for Lapack 3.4. It
involves the specification of the size of the "rwork" array used by the
zgesdd() function.  If the documented size is used, the zgesdd()
function can write past the end of the array, which will lead to a crash
or unpredictable behaviour.

I've modified Armadillo to work around this bug, by following the
approach used by Octave and SciPy."

Version 4.000.5 only adds bugfixes, when compared to version 4.000.4. In other 
words, the bugfix has been backported:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arma/files/armadillo-4.000.5.tar.gz

I am aware that you are in a freeze, but the diff is minor, so please
consider this, since it eliminates a serious bug.

I've just uploaded armadillo to Debian, so it should be showing up soon.

Thanks.

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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