[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Slepc 2.3.3?

[Ondrej Certik]

On 10/17/07, Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org> wrote:
> [ Tuesday 16 October 2007 ]
> | Any chance that there will be slepc2.3.3 version?  I am trying to get
> | slepc, petsc, petsc4py and slepc4py working (so I can finish the SVD
> | wrappers in slepc4py), and am having a nightmare of time getting it all
> | to work together.  Having a stack of debs to install would simplify
> | things quite a bit.
> Gregg
>
> I redirect your email to pkg-scicomp mailing list where this discussion should
> be and if you are interested please feel free to join in.
> Ondrej Certik is the actual maintainer of slepc in Debian.
> I guess there must be some issues with slepc
> if it is not yet in debian, Ondrej ?

Hi, I am glad someone is interested in that. I am the maintainer of
petsc4py, slepc. petsc and petsc4py should be working out of the box.
The problem with slepc2.3.3 is that it's license is such bad, that it
cannot even be in debian non-free. The last version of slepc, that can
be in non-free is slepc2.3.2, but when I patched it to compile against
petsc2.3.3, it compiles, but all examples segfaults. I wrote to slepc
upstream and they are very helpful and offered me to help - but I
don't have time at the moment to do that. Any help is appreciated.

Ondre