[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Uploading dolfin to contrib

Johannes Ring johannr at simula.no
Thu Feb 11 09:28:46 UTC 2010


Hi Christophe,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Christophe Prud'homme
<prudhomm at debian.org> wrote:
> 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

Yes, I think they are already about to switch to PT-SCOTCH in DOLFIN.
Still, depending on CGAL will put DOLFIN in contrib I guess.

Thanks,

Johannes

> 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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