[Pkg-octave-devel] The future of Atlas

[Sébastien Villemot]

Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>> > The conservative choice seems "libatlas3-base | libopenblas-base".
>> 
>> I intend to upload a new octave 3.6.2 with the above change
>> (i.e. recommend atlas | openblas, not the other way round). Since the
>> freeze should happen on June 30th, we need to move quickly, so I will
>> make the upload tonight unless somebody raises his her voice.
>> 
>> This upload will also fix the gnuplot Recommends.
>
> Please go ahead.

I did not yet do the upload because after compiling I realized that the
lapack package in sid has a bug: the dependency of the resulting
octave package is "liblapack3" instead of being "liblapack3 |
liblapack.so.3 | libatlas3-base" as it should be.

There are other various issues in the blas/lapack/atlas/openblas
packages that I hope to fix on Sunday during the Debian Science sprint.

Even if the upload of octave is made next week, it should still be
possible to have it migrate to wheezy because the release team plans to
do an exception on June 30th: all packages that are in sid by that date
will be allowed to enter wheezy, whatever their age.

There is therefore a window of opportunity to fix the fltk thing, but I
personally don't have the time to investigate it.

Thanks,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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