Bug#731211: aster: new upstream release, work in progress

[trophime]

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Denis Laxalde wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andrea Palazzi a écrit :
> > - I'd really prefer to remove the libmetis dependency and keep it in
> > main and not in contrib; after all libmetis is not absolutely required (
> > the patch no_metis_default.diff was there to change the default
> > renumerator from metis to md ) , and I think that packages in contrib
> > are out of the auto-builder circuit. Moreover we all prefer 100% free
> > software ;-)
> 
> I agree that this Aster in Debian would be better with the non-free 
> dependency on libmetis. However, I actually had troubles during build 
> with scotch version of metis. I will look into this further, though.
> 

libmetis license has recently changed :)
It is no longer "non-free"... but it will require some change in Aster,
I guess


> 

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