[Pkg-scicomp-devel] arpack in svn doesn't build

[Ondrej Certik]

> I have three questions about arpack:
>
> 1) The svn version 2.1-10 doesn't build:
>
> $ debuild
> parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at file
> debian/changelog line 7
> debuild: fatal error at line 617:
> problem executing dpkg-parsechangelog | grep:
>
> 2) The one in unstable is 2.1-8, what happened to the 2.1-9 and 2.1-10 ?
>
> 3) Isn't it more convenient to only store the debian directory in the
> svn and use svn-buildpackage to build it? If I understand it
> correctly, I need to have the orig.tar.gz anyway.

My questions above still hold and I have two more:

4) the arpack upstream consist of 4 files - arpack96.tar.gz,
parpack96.tar.gz, patch.tar.gz, ppatch.tar.gz, but there should be
just one orig.tar.gz. Should we repackage the 4 packages into one
orig.dfsg.tar.gz?

5) I would like to fix the arpack package to work with slepc, I know
how to do it (my own installation of arpack and parpack works), but I
would like to use your way of doing things in the arpack package - so
how can I compile it? (I know how to fix the problems, but just want
to know what your intentions are).

Ondrej