[Pkg-octave-devel] fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

[Muammar El Khatib]

Hi Riku,

On 7/21/07, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did
> not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers
> of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain.
>
> If you have suggestions, critique, or you are busy but accept NMU'ing
> your packages for gfortran transition.. please speak now.
>
> Some of the packages gfortran transition affects are also affected by
> the long double transition. This includes atleast the following fortran
> packages:
>
> lam, atlas3, fftw3, hdf5, mpich1.0, petsc, pdl
>
> Therefor, I think it would make sense to start g77 -> gfortran
> transition promptly, to avoid transitioning same packages twice.
>

I had read the mail, I am sorry about the delay answering. I am under
the classification: "Leaf" packages, that can be uploaded as soon as
all their dependencies have been transitioned.

I think it would be good, in some way, to report when a package has
been changed successfully as requested by the transition, and maybe to
share common problems or any important information would be also
great.

In my case, Scalapack's Build-Depens is :

Build-Depends: libmpich1.0-dev (>= 1.2.7-1), lam4-dev (>= 7.1.1-3.2),
pvm-dev, blacs-mpich-dev (>= 1.1-25), blacs-lam-dev, blacs-pvm-dev,
g77,  lapack3-dev | liblapack-3.so, refblas3-dev | libblas-3.so,
debhelper (>= 5)

So I have to proceed changing it to:

Build-Depends: libmpich1.0-dev (>= 1.2.7-1), lam4-dev (>= 7.1.1-3.2),
pvm-dev, blacs-mpich-dev (>= 1.1-25), blacs-lam-dev, blacs-pvm-dev,
gfortran,  lapack3-dev | liblapack-3.so, refblas3-dev | libblas-3.so,
debhelper (>= 5)

But before compiling scalapack  I have to change blacs-pvm and
blacs-mpi first (gfortran) and all the other dependencies have to be
built with gfortran already, too. I think this is the way I have to do
it.


Best regards,
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