[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#463820: Bug#463820: Bug#463820: suitesparse -- move to gfortran based BLAS and LAPACK

Ondrej Certik ondrej at certik.cz
Sun Feb 3 21:17:55 UTC 2008


On Feb 3, 2008 9:29 PM, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:
> * Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> [2008-02-03 22:10]:
>
> > I would request you to please shift to use the new gfortran based
> > Lapack and Blas packages in order to phase out packages dependent on
> > the old g2c (g77). In this regard, I would request you to refer to:
> >
> > http://wiki.debian.org/GfortranTransition
> >
> > Attached is a patch which does the needful, which you may use to base
> > your change.
>
> Thanks for the patch, I am taking care of this now.
>
> > You may wish to rename the package in order to provide for parallel
> > installability of the g77 and gfortran based suitesparse packages, if
> > you choose to upload to unstable.
>
> I am not sure it is necessary to do this.  At any rate, The following
> packages depend on suitesparse: python-scipy, openoffice.org-calc,
> octave3.0, octave2.9, lp-solve, and libpetsc2.3.3.  The octave2.9 package
> will be dropped from sid/testing and the Debian Octave Group is already
> taking care of octave3.0.  We must check whether the other packages would be
> affected by this g77 -> gfortran switch.
>
> I think it is better to upload 3.1.0-1 to experimental, what I will do soon
> if there are no objections.

Thanks Rafael for taking care of this and thanks Kumar for posting the
patches. When it hits unstable, we'll have some more work
with python-scipy (and I guess python-numpy too).

Ondrej





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