[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-09-28 13:06]:
| 
| > There will likely be a 2.9.4 snapshot soon.  It will depend on
| > ufsparse instead of umfpack.  We are expecting ufsparse to provide the
| > libraries -lamd -lumfpack and -lcolamd.  You can check the current
| > configure.in in CVS for more details.  Will you please check on the
| > status of packaging ufsparse for Debian?
| 
| It does not appear to exist a ufsparse package in Debian.  I cannot even
| find the upstream location.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/beta/Aug31_2005/

| If needed, The Debian Octave Group will package ufsparse for Debian.

OK.  There is one problem.  Cholmod from ufsparse requires METIS,
which is distributed under terms that are not compatible with the GPL,
so we won't be able to use it unless the license changes.  David
Bateman has asked the author about licensing, but I don't know the
outcome.

jwe