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+## Copyright (C) 2008 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {@var{r} =} spchol (@var{a})
+## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{r}, @var{p}] =} spchol (@var{a})
+## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{r}, @var{p}, @var{q}] =} spchol (@var{a})
+## This function has been deprecated.  Use @code{chol} instead.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function varargout = spchol (varargin)
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+	     ["spchol is obsolete and will be removed from a future\n",
+	      "version of Octave, please use chol instead"]);
+  endif
+
+  varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
+  [ varargout{:} ] = chol (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction