[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#577584: Bug#577584: Uninstallable

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

On 27/08/10 23:10, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 15:54, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen<torquil at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Ok, it seems that libmesh0.6.4 is incompatible with the current version of
>> libpetsc in debian, v3.1. After some time I managed to make a DEB file of
>> libmesh SVN.
>
> Are you sure this isn't an RC bug? It's keeping the package out of
> squeeze, which is bad bad bad.
>
> I wonder if there's a way to get libmesh-dev into squeeze. I doubt a
> svn release would get past the release managers.

I think this bug is already an RC bug since it is classified as "grave"? It 
showes up together with two others when I click "RC" on the libmesh page:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/libm/libmesh.html

When I tried to compile libmesh0.6.4 against libpetsc 3.1 I discovered that 
libpetsc had gone through an API change. libmesh tried to call a petsc function 
with the wrong number of arguments. So I guess there has been an API change in 
libpetsc. Perhaps the API change was at libpetsc 3.0 and libmesh0.6.4 didn't 
compile with that either?

Torquil Sørensen