Bug#654845: closed by Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> (Re: Bug#654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack)

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Are you aware of the arpack-ng initiative ?
http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/ 
Scilab, Octave, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and others switched to this
version of Arpack.



Le vendredi 13 janvier 2012 à 11:14 +0530, Viral Shah a écrit :
> For what it is worth, many of these patches are included here:
> 
> https://github.com/inducer/arpack
> 
> -viral
> 
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> On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> 
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > which was filed against the libarpack2 package:
> > 
> > #654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
> > 
> > It has been closed by Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>.
> > 
> > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> > better one in a separate message then please contact Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> by
> > replying to this email.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 654845: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654845
> > Debian Bug Tracking System
> > Contact owner at bugs.debian.org with problems
> > 
> > From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: Bug#654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
> > Date: January 11, 2012 9:15:22 PM GMT+05:30
> > To: roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian at gmail.com>
> > Cc: 654845-done at bugs.debian.org, "Viral B. Shah" <viral at mayin.org>, 654845 at bugs.debian.org, control at bugs.debian.org
> > 
> > 
> > forcemerge 654845 315570
> > thanks
> > 
> > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 15:53 +0100, roucaries bastien a écrit :
> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> >>> Le vendredi 06 janvier 2012 à 01:51 -0500, Viral B. Shah a écrit :
> >>>> Package: libarpack2
> >>>> Severity: important
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ARPACK needs to use LAPACK 2.0 for correctness. This will cause a
> >>>> conflict with liblapack upon which it depends. See this thread on the
> >>>> issue and a name mangling fix, so that LAPACK 2.0 routines can be used
> >>>> in ARPACK.
> >>> I don't see the issue for now.
> >>> Could you produce a sample which shows the issue ?
> >> 
> >> Solved long time ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315570
> >> 
> >> Sylvain feel free to force-merge if I have understood correctly
> > OK.
> > 
> > Thanks for the information
> > Sylvestre (and not Sylvain ;)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: "Viral B. Shah" <viral at mayin.org>
> > Subject: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
> > Date: January 6, 2012 12:21:27 PM GMT+05:30
> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> > 
> > 
> > Package: libarpack2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > ARPACK needs to use LAPACK 2.0 for correctness. This will cause a
> > conflict with liblapack upon which it depends. See this thread on the
> > issue and a name mangling fix, so that LAPACK 2.0 routines can be used
> > in ARPACK. The BLAS can be the standard one from the debian
> > distribution.
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2011-July/215640.html
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 6.0.3
> >  APT prefers stable
> >  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > 
> > Versions of packages libarpack2 depends on:
> > ii  libatlas3gf-3dnow [liblapack. 3.6.0-22   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
> > ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]   1.2-8      Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp
> > ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> > ii  libgfortran3                  4.4.5-8    Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
> > ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3g 3.2.1-8    library of linear algebra routines
> > pn  libopenmpi1.3                 <none>     (no description available)
> > 
> > Versions of packages libarpack2 recommends:
> > pn  atlas3-base                   <none>     (no description available)
> > 
> > libarpack2 suggests no packages.
> > 
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