[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Slepc 2.3.3?

[Ondrej Certik]

> I am one of your user ;)
> I implemented a slepc/petsc interface in my code and it works nicely :)

Awesome. :)

> they change their license between 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 ?

Unfortunately. Among other things they added a phrase that you cannot
redistribute modified copies. I asked on debian-legal and that
basically means it's not redistributable (I had to modify some
makefiles etc., also the binary package is a derivative work, strictly
speaking).

> | 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.
> could you send on the list your discussions with upstream ?

Basically I only mentioned my problems and they offered help and asked
me to send them patch that I had to apply to slepc2.3.2 in order to
compile it with petsc2.3.3 (+other changes I had to make in order to
comply with Debian policy, like propr .a and .so files etc.), but I
didn't find time to do it yet.

If any of you could look into that, it'd be appreciated. Simply go to
the slepc svn dir at pkg-scicomp, which contains the latest version of
my packaging, make it compile against petsc2.3.3 and test examples. It
won't work. Then send all the details upstream and they'll look into
that.

Thanks a lot,
Ondrej