Bug#735679: RFP: superlu-dist -- MPI version of SuperLU

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le vendredi 17 janvier 2014 à 14:24 +0100, trophime a écrit :
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel at lists.debian.org

>    Package name: superlu-dist
>         Version: 3.3
> Upstream Author: Jim Demmel, John Gilbert, Xiaoye (Sherry) Li
>             URL: http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/superlu-dist_2.4.tar.gz
>         License: see the copyright bellow
>     Description: MPI version of SuperLU
> 
>  SuperLU is a general purpose library for the direct solution of
>  large, sparse, nonsymmetric systems of linear equations on high
>  performance machines.
> 
>  Note that you can already find a tentative package on Debian science
> svn repository

The upstream tarball contains a nonfree file (SRC/mc64ad.c) that is not
dealt with in the packaging currently in SVN. This issue is very similar
to that of the superlu package (version 4.3+dfsg-2), and should probably
dealt with similarly: by creating a debian/orig-tar.sh script that
repackages the upstream tarball, and modifying debian/watch accordingly;
also one should create a patch similar to
debian/patches/mc64ad-stub.patch from superlu (in order to allow
compilation, and have the library abort if one tries to use the feature
implemented with nonfree code).

Also, the debian/copyright file lacks information about several files
(for example those under a Xerox copyright).

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