[Pkg-scicomp-devel] atlas packaging

[Matthias Klose]

Jason Riedy writes:
> And Matthias Klose writes:
> > If you do want to help with the transition, please help upgrading the
> > atlas package from 3.6 to 3.8.
> 
> What's necessary?  I build atlas for myself unfortunately often
> (on non-Debian platforms).
> 
> And if you have any preferences for how upstream LAPACK is
> organized, please let us know.  Most of the information at
>   http://www.netlib.org/lapack-dev/
> is out of date, but the link to the mailing list is active.
> 
> There are tentative plans to separate pieces a bit more cleanly
> and provide more typical build targets, but there's a lack of
> manpower and one higher-level obstacle.

well, the current build system in debian is a bit interesting, and
Camm (the current maintainer) currently is a bit busy, so we'll have
to attack this without his help for now.

You'll find the current state at http://people.debian.org/~doko/atlas/

Apparently the build system did change upstream between 3.6 and 3.8;
Camm currently does use dejagnu to automate the interactive configury,
so the change breaks the build of the debian package. And honestly, I
couldn't figure out yet, where to change things to consistently change
optimization flags.

I won't have the time to work on atlas anymore; the old package didn't
build on some architectures, and so it won't be that bad if we do
loose another one or two and build with blas and lapack instead for
now.

  Matthias