[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#463820: Bug#463820: suitesparse -- move to gfortran based BLAS and LAPACK

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> [2008-02-03 22:10]:

> I would request you to please shift to use the new gfortran based
> Lapack and Blas packages in order to phase out packages dependent on
> the old g2c (g77). In this regard, I would request you to refer to:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/GfortranTransition
>
> Attached is a patch which does the needful, which you may use to base
> your change.

Thanks for the patch, I am taking care of this now.

> You may wish to rename the package in order to provide for parallel
> installability of the g77 and gfortran based suitesparse packages, if
> you choose to upload to unstable.

I am not sure it is necessary to do this.  At any rate, The following
packages depend on suitesparse: python-scipy, openoffice.org-calc,
octave3.0, octave2.9, lp-solve, and libpetsc2.3.3.  The octave2.9 package
will be dropped from sid/testing and the Debian Octave Group is already
taking care of octave3.0.  We must check whether the other packages would be
affected by this g77 -> gfortran switch.
  
I think it is better to upload 3.1.0-1 to experimental, what I will do soon
if there are no objections.

-- 
Rafael