[Pkg-scicomp-devel] SuiteSparse 3.2.0

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org> [2009-01-21 10:13]:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > When it will be uploaded to unstable post-lenny, the new libsuitesparse-dev
> > will depend on libsuitesparse-3.2.0 and will force all the depending
> > packages to be rebuilt against it.
> 
> Just ooc, what is the timeline for that upload post-lenny? asap after the
> lenny release?

I do not remember well, but I think that the upload to unstable should be
done in a coordinated manner, with the help of the debian-release team.
At any rate, I would push it to be done right after the lenny release.

> > I therefore ask the maintainers of those depending packages to give a try
> > right now to the new SuiteSparse packages in experimental, such that the
> > transition will be smoother later.
> 
> lp-solve builds, which makes me think OOo will do, too. (but it'd be too
> much hassle to build lp-solve, create a extra chroot, and build OOo against
> that lp-solve and the new suitesparse)

This should be done by the Debian OpenOffice Team, shouldn't it.
 
-- 
Rafael