Comments regarding petsc_3.8.0+dfsg1-1exp1_amd64.changes

Thorsten Alteholz ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org
Sat Feb 24 16:07:41 UTC 2018


Hi Drew,

one of our trainess had a look at your package and found the following 
stuff. He is nice and doesn't want to reject the package but just have
your comments :-).

Thanks!
 Thorsten



Not lintian-clean:
 * package-has-unnecessary-activation-of-ldconfig-trigger (1)
 * csh-considered-harmful (1)
 * executable-not-elf-or-script (37)

Format in d/copyright is in http, where https is prefered.

I'm not sure whether it is possible to reproduce the following files (and
whether is is required at all):

- petsc-3.8.0/share/petsc/datafiles/matrices/ contain suspicious files in binary
  format. Quite possible related to some computational stuff, but i'm not sure.

- petsc-3.8.0/share/petsc/datafiles/meshes/*.exo are in CDF format, which is
  rather a binary format.

- petsc-3.8.0/share/petsc/datafiles/meshes/*.med are in HDF format, which is
  rather a binary format.

- petsc-3.8.0/share/petsc/datafiles/meshes/*.cgns are in ADF format, which is
  rather a binary format for database storing.

- petsc-3.8.0/share/petsc/datafiles/meshes/horse.ply.bz2 is an archived file,
  containing some binary data.

- petsc-3.8.0/petsc/src/dm/impls/moab/examples/tests/input/ex3_in.h5m is a
  binary file in HDF format.

Also d/copyritgh is not full. I've found the following file:

petsc-3.8.0/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex63.cxx, which is licensed under
BSD-2-clause and copyrighted 2011 Sandia, but it is absent from d/copyright.





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