[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Uploading dolfin to contrib

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Johannes

(pt)scotch provides a (par)metis interface that you might want to look at
I have been replacing metis with the scotchmetis interface for some
time now with success

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> wrote:
> 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
>
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