[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Problems with arpack++

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org> [2008-03-02 10:16]:

> arpack++ [1,2] is unmaintained fpr many years now(not compilable, build
> system not working...). I fixed a few years ago everything (compilation
> with a modern c++ compiler, eg, g++4), build system using the autotools,
> created also a testsuite to check all examples/tests in arpack++. I never
> made an official release, not sent the patches to upstream which is
> unresponsive to email, but distributed the "fixes" directly with Debian.

I see.  This means that you are effectively maintaining a branch for
arpack++.  If I understand correctly, you have started a new version
numbering for your branch (2.1 and later 2.2).  Am I right?

The problem here is that you kept the same name of the pristine project
(arpack++).  To add to the confusion, debian/copyright indicates the
original URL and do not mention your branching work.  Wouldn't it be better
to rename the package and make the new "upstream" tarball available in the
pkg-scicomp web area at Alioth?

-- 
Rafael