[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Uploading lapack 3.2.0 to unstable

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr
Mon Feb 16 13:58:30 UTC 2009


Hello,

> As you all know, lenny is released.  It is time now to migrate lapack 3.2.0
> to unstable.  There was no shlib bump, so this migration should be safe,
> UNLESS the library has changes in the API/ABI in spite of the SONAME not
> changing.  Does anyone know whether this is really the case?  We should be
> careful in doing it, because a huge number of packages depend on
> liblapack3gf.
At first, I thought it was OK but in fact, they made some interface changes in the routines 
ZCGESV DLASQ3 DLASQ4 SLASQ3 SLASQ4 and removed the routines DLAZQ3 DLAZQ4 SLAZQ3 SLAZQ4.
I don't know if they are used or not ...

Sylvestre








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