[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Uploading dolfin to contrib

[Johannes Ring]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 10 février 2010 à 15:21 +0100, Johannes Ring a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm about to upload a new version of dolfin. This time I have added
>> two non-free packages as dependencies so dolfin will then go into
>> contrib. I have updated the Section field in debian/control and added
>> a note about it in debian/copyright. Any objections before I go ahead
>> with this change? Or any advice?
> For curiosity, which are these two non free packages ?

Sorry, I forgot to mention. They are CGAL and ParMETIS. None of them
are strictly needed, but ParMETIS is necessary to run DOLFIN in
parallel and linking with CGAL also has some key features. I talked to
Anders Logg (core developer of DOLFIN) about this and he wanted me to
link with those libraries. However, I think they will look into using
SCOTCH instead of ParMETIS in the future.

Are there other ways to handle this? Like having a libdolfin-contrib package?

Johannes