PETSc/SLEPc transition

Johannes Ring johannr at simula.no
Mon Jan 2 21:32:33 UTC 2012


Hi Adam,

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
> As part of the mpi-defaults transition, I've been doing some much
> deferred maintenance on various packages, just about all of which have
> new upstream.  hypre, scotch and mumps now have new upstream versions in
> unstable.
>
> As part of this, I'd like to bump PETSc to version 3.2.

Great!

>  But I don't
> want to break SLEPc and its reverse-dependencies, and don't know what's
> involved in a new upstream slepc version.  So I'm wondering, can someone
> do the SLEPc 3.2 transition, probably sometime next week, to go along
> with the PETSc transition?

I can do the packaging for SLEPc 3.2. However, I don't know much about
the upstream changes or the reverse-dependencies either, except that I
know that it has been tested and works well with DOLFIN.

Johannes



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