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

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:06 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Thu, March 26, 2009 18:27, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:42 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
> >> 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.

Great, then the way you have done it makes sense.

> >> 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.

All looks good to me.  FYI, ftp-masters rejected petsc because of a
non-free directory.  I'm building and will soon upload 3.0.0.dfsg-1.

-Adam
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