Bug#586340: libelmersolver-5.5.0: should depend on mumps

[Denis Laxalde]

Hello Adam,

Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> This fix has been in the alioth repository for some time, and I more
> recently added a configure test for MUMPS in Elmer itself.  I've been
> using it, it works quite well, going from 4 -> 8 cores in a 300k
> element run roughly doubles the speed (but it should scale quite a
> bit larger than this).

Great news!

> This will land in unstable as soon as it gets through NEW, but will
> FTBFS because of bug 589763 which only requires a binNMU of ScaLAPACK.
> I'll use that as an excuse to bump the severity of 589763 to serious,
> so it finally gets some attention before the squeeze release.

Ok, this sounds legitimate. Also, I tried to rebuild scalapack as you
suggested in #589763 (no source change) and I can confirm that atlas
does not appear anymore in dependencies of any scalapack binary
packages.

> Though this won't get into squeeze because of its freeze status, it
> should get into Ubuntu Nutty, and is already in my Opennovation Ubuntu
> Lucid repository at www.opennovation.org/ubuntu/ .

Thank you for your work in Debian and have a nice day!


Denis