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

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Rafael,

>
>  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?
yes the version number follows thew one of arpack

>  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?
yes that would be better and I agree with your solution.
I still have a lot of courses to give this week (3) at Univ Joseph
Fourier in Grenoble.
Hopefully starting next week I will have some time to deal with the
issues you raised

thank you for your input and help on arpack !
C.