[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Request to Join Project Scientific Computing Debian Packages

[Ondrej Certik]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
>
> On Mon, June 23, 2008 Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, <noreply at alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Johannes Ring has requested to join your project.
>>>> You can approve this request here:
>>>> http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921.
>>>>
>>>> Comments by the user:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> my name is Johannes Ring and I work as a Scientific Programmer at
>>>> Simula
>>>> Research Laboratory (http://www.simula.no) in Norway. Here at Simula we
>>>> are
>>>> focusing on development of software (mostly open source) for
>>>> scientific computing and most of our researchers/developers are using
>>>> Debian or Ubuntu as their development platform. We want our software to
>>>> be
>>>> as easy to install as possible for people running Debian/Ubuntu and we
>>>> have
>>>> therefore set up a couple of repositories, which I am currently the
>>>> maintainer of. However, it would be even easier for the user if the
>>>> packages
>>>> were included in Debian/Ubuntu in the first place (no need to add
>>>> sources).
>>>> In that respect, I have been asked by my project leader Ola Skavhaug
>>>> and
>>>> Anders Logg, which is one of the main developers of the
>>>> FEniCS software suite (www.fenics.org), to try to become an official
>>>> Debian maintainer so that I can help in getting our packages into
>>>> Debian/Ubuntu. Since I am a Debian/Ubuntu guy (started with Debian in
>>>> 2000
>>>> but switched to Ubuntu Breezy in 2005 when I couldn\'t get my new
>>>> Thinkpad
>>>> to work in Debian) I would very much like to contribute in the
>>>> development
>>>> of Debian by maintaining and adding new packages. I have been aware of
>>>> the
>>>> pkg-scicomp group for some time now and used several of the packages
>>>> that
>>>> are available there (like scotch, slepc, and trilinos), so I am sure
>>>> that
>>
>> If you could help me fix slepc, it'd be nice.
>
> Yes, of course, I would be happy to help you with SLEPc. I'm not sure if I
> can, but I'll do my best :-)

Ok. :) I think currently it is completely broken, e.g. if you install
it and try to run any example, it will segfault.
The reason being that 2.3.3 is not redistributable by Debian, so we
need to use 2.3.2 and that doesn't seem to work with petsc2.3.3, e.g.
it compiles but segfaults on examples.

>
>> BTW, I just spoke with
>> Jose Roman, the main author of it
>> here at PMAA08 (http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/pmaa08/) and if everything
>> goes well I think the next version will be opensource (LGPL),
>> which is a great news.
>
> Yes, that would be great.

Yep. We may as well just wait until they release a new (truly free)
version and just fix that.

Ondrej