[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Fixing atlas on debian/Ubuntu

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mercredi 09 septembre 2009 à 21:19 +0900, David Cournapeau a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 09 septembre 2009 à 09:22 +0900, David Cournapeau a écrit :
> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Sylvestre Ledru<sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > However, I gonna have to wait for one or two weeks before of the upload
> >> > because there are some large transitions in Debian going on [1] & [2].
> >>
> >> Ok, but the patches can be integrated in svn now, right ? This way, I
> >> could quickly test them and help making the integration if problem
> >> remain.
> > Yep, I just committed all of them.
> > They are available in the pkg-scicomp repository. If you want, you can
> > applied to the team to have the write permissions on the svn.
> 
> I will track the project from git for now. I am afraid of applying to
> one more thing for the time being :)
OK, as you wish!

> I saw you started integrating my patches - please note that the
> NOSSE/SSE1/SSE2 support on 32 bits arch requires some new arch
> defaults (the upstream arch default would fail with the first patch).
Hmm, what do you mean by that ?

> >
> >> I am unfamiliar with debian release process: once you upload the
> >> package, do people running unstable see their package updated ?
> > Yes and no.
> > With a standard application, yes.
> > Here, no because we are dealing with a massive change of an important
> > library with ABI changes.
> 
> Which ABI changes ? A package built against 3.6.20 should run against
> 3.8.3, normally.
Are you sure that no profile of any functions changed between the two versions ?
I tried to find this information in the documentation but I haven't been
able to find anything.

> I was also wondering about the -dev -> -dbg renaming: what's the
> rationale ? isn't dbg reserved for debug packages ?
You are right. I forgot to revert this stuff. I was trying to generate debug packaging...
Thanks !

Sylvestre