[Pkg-scicomp-devel] including atlas in lenny

[Ondrej Certik]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:13:33AM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>
>>> the atlas package was uploaded:
>>
>>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/atlas.html
>>
>>> which fixes this RC (ftbfs) bug:
>>
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486974
>>
>>> would it be please possible to include it in lenny?
>>
>>> There is a problem though that it has problems building on some
>>> architectures like alpha:
>>
>>> http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=atlas
>>
>>> But it works on i386, amd64 and most others. Is this a showstopper?
>>
>> Yes:
>>
>>  4. Autobuilding
>>  [...]
>>
>>        Packages must autobuild without failure on all architectures on
>>        which they are supported. Packages must be supported on as many
>>        architectures as is reasonably possible. Packages are assumed to
>>        be supported on all architectures for which they have previously
>>        built successfully. Prior builds for unsupported architectures
>>        must be removed from the archive (contact -release or ftpmaster
>>        if this is the case).
>>
>> http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt
>>
>> atlas has significant reverse-dependencies, removing it from alpha is not
>> acceptable to me with my alpha hat on.
>
> As Thomas Weber said, it seems we will have to find someone willing to
> maintain atlas 3.8.0 to work on alpha.
>
> Also imho the packages should only depend on atlas and blas instead,

correction: depend on lapack and blas.

Ondrej