[Pkg-scicomp-devel] adopting atlas, lapack and blas

[Sylvestre Ledru]

> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-scicomp/atlas/?rev=0&sc=0
> 
> the package builds in pbuilder, so all is fine.
> 
> I'll see what is the best way to achieve the goal. One approach is to
> generate quilt patches using the current packaging, but I fear it will
> be easier to start from scratch, with the new upstream version. 
I think you are right. It seems pretty tricky to maintain.

> In
> this case, I'll probably create a testing repo just for this and I'll
> ask some DD to upload it to experimental, so that we can all try it
> and improve it. And use the old repo to fix possible (RC) bugs with
> the current packaging in unstable.
> 
> And I am sure people will join in. In the Debian Scientific
> Computation Team we use svn, so let's just use svn. If the whole team
> migrates to git, we'll migrate to git, otherwise not, so that all the
> packages are at one place.
> 
> And I'll do the same with lapack and blas. I'll be out of town till
> Sunday, but then I'll work on it.
I can help for lapack and blas. I have been using them for Scilab.

Sylvestre