[Pkg-octave-devel] The future of Atlas

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:28:15PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> I have been discussing this issue with Sylvestre Ledru, the maintainer
> of atlas. Even though he has not made a decision yet, he is now
> considering the possibility of removing atlas from the archive. I am
> going to help him maintain the package but I am not sure that we can
> solve the various issues. Especially there are FTBFS on several release
> architectures and upstream seems not willing to help.

I've skimmed the SourceForge mailing list and I think the issue is more
along the lines of "he is way too busy for keeping ATLAS at least
somewhat buildable on what feels like 100+ architectures".

> All in all, it is becoming likely that we will have to change the
> Recommends field of octave from atlas to openblas. This may even have to
> be done for Wheezy.

Hmm, I think Sylvestre should clarify that with the release team. I
don't think they will object (at least for Octave, it doesn't change
anything in the build), but I'd rather get their OK for that *now*. 

Thanks for taking care
	Thomas