[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Fixing atlas on debian/Ubuntu

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Sylvestre Ledru<sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:

>> Ok, so how do we do to merge our efforts ? I think my own patches to
>> upstream are a superset of your two patches (they also fix a few
>> issues with atlas configuration scheme which does not work when called
>> from a makefile because of bogus log parsing - F77SYSLIBS is never set
>> up correctly, for example).
>>
>> Otherwise, modifying your rules file w.r.t those patches should be
>> fairly straightforward.
> Indeed, I am currently reusing your patches which are great! Nice work!

Thanks - I spent a fair deal of time ensuring the patches were
self-contained and independent of each other, so I am glad it is
useful.

> Patches I was using were not providing the backward compatibilities with
> the old packaging of atlas under Debian. It is great to see that your
> patches are providing it too!

Yes, they were designed as such. Originally, those patches are used to
provide PPA packages so that people update to atlas 3.8.3 without
rebuilding numpy or scipy. I have tested that it indeed works this
way.

> However, I gonna have to wait for one or two weeks before of the upload
> because there are some large transitions in Debian going on [1] & [2].

Ok, but the patches can be integrated in svn now, right ? This way, I
could quickly test them and help making the integration if problem
remain.

I am unfamiliar with debian release process: once you upload the
package, do people running unstable see their package updated ?

cheers,

David