Bug#826960: mumps: Please package with metis and parmetis

[Drew Parsons]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:13:13 +0800 Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi Pierre, I'm preparing an update to mumps 5.1.  I'm following
> upstream's new debian template, which builds both scotch and metis at
> the same time.  This means libmumps-scotch-dev will have both scotch
> and metis support (similarly in the parallel version).  Is this
useful
> to you or would we be better to generate a strictly new separate
> package?
> 

Belay that.  metis has a non-free licence, so we can't build against it
without relegating mumps to contrib instead of the main archive.

It'll be easy for you to activate metis support yourself with a local
build.  For instance you could grab the experimental branch from the
debian git repo 
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/mumps.git
metis support was temporarily in place at commit
8d3d2aceffe4f90b35957cb98ace1c4370a69456

Drew