[Pkg-scicomp-devel] slepc 3.0 is LGPL !

Johannes Ring johannr at simula.no
Fri Mar 27 08:06:08 UTC 2009


On Thu, March 26, 2009 18:27, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:42 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I have been doing some work on the SLEPc package recently and I ended up
>> with a complete rewrite of debian/rules. This file is now strongly based
>> on debian/rules from the PETSc package. I hope it's okay that I borrowed
>> from your file Adam?
>
> Of course, that's what free software is all about. :-)

True :-)

>> This means that most SLEPc files will now be located
>> under /usr/lib/slepc. I also added libslepc3.0.0-dbg for static
>> debugging
>> libraries and slepc3.0.0-doc for documentation and examples.
>
> Sounds good.  One thing: if upstream does -dbg the way PETSc does,
> that's great.  Otherwise, the Debian way of shipping separate debugging
> symbols is a lot more efficient in terms of storage space and build
> time.  I only do it the "PETSc way" because that's how upstream does it
> and users might expect that convention (static with debugging symbols).
> But a couple of people have bugged me about it, particularly ftp-masters
> when it's in the NEW queue.

I think SLEPc does it the same way as PETSc.

>> Please see the attached patch for the changes and if they seem okay I
>> will
>> commit them to the repository.
>
> All looks good to me.  "If it builds, it's great; if it boots, it's
> perfect" -Linus

And it's lintian clean so then it must be really perfect ;-)

I just committed my changes. Please do any necessary changes or let me
know and I will try to do it.

Johannes





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