[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: SUNDIALS shared libraries
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Fri Oct 28 22:57:30 UTC 2005
* Andrey Romanenko <andrey at enginum.com> [2005-10-28 23:39]:
> Will it be possible to make a smooth transition later? I am asking
> because I really have little packaging experience. Actually, sundials
> is my very first go at it :)
It depends on your definition of "smooth transition". For the
libsundials-*-serial packages themselves, the transition si not
problematic, it is just a matter of adding "Conflicts" and "Replaces"
fields to debian/control.
On the other hand, the packages depending on libsundials-serial will
have to be rebuilt with the right dependencies once the libsundials
package is split.
> I can speak about CVODES only.
> We use it in our Newton-type nonlinear model predictive control package that
> is written in C, C++, and Fortran. Once it is released, I will make a .deb
> package out of it, but I am afraid it is too specific to make it into
> mainstream Debian :)
> From what I gathered attending a few recent conferences, not many people were
> aware of the existence of SUNDIALS and they were eager to try it. So, I
> believe the number of applications using SUNDIALS is definitely going to
> grow. And I may be mistaken, but I think there is no other free software
> alternative for CVODES at the moment.
Sounds good. For now, I think we should release a unique
libsundials-serial package, to avoid bloating the archive.
--
Rafael
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