Bug#851183: fenics: Misses important 'mshr' module

[Johannes Ring]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Hagen Fuchs <code at hfuchs.net> wrote:
> Fenics/Dolfin contains the core module 'mshr' which deals in meshes.
> All current examples seem to be employing 'mshr', eg.
> https://fenicsproject.org/qa/9414/fenics-mesh-generation-mark-inner-region

No, not really - none of the demo programs in DOLFIN uses mshr.
However, I agree that it would be great to make mshr part of Debian.

> The Fenics project page mentions that simply installing Fenics should
> bring 'mshr' along, so maybe/hopefully this is a simple matter to
> resolve.  (Knowing Fenics, it most probably isn't.)

mshr is already packaged for Debian [1]. The problem is that mshr
includes a (patched) copy of CGAL and was therefore rejected by the
ftp-masters. A bug report has been made for mshr [2] to enable use of
system CGAL, but this has not been fixed yet since mshr needs a
patched version of CGAL.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/fenics/mshr.git/
[2] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/mshr/issues/63/enable-use-of-system-cgal

Johannes