Bug#888712: netgen: Please update to newest package version 6.2.x

[kkremitzki at gmail.com]

On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 17:45 +0100, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> thanks for the info. It would be much better if upstream
> makes a release of netgen, so we can upload it into
> the Debian archive. Pulling the rolling release is not
> quite convenient.
> 
> Anton
> 

They are making (monthly) releases, it's just that they're not tagging
them properly in the github.com/ngsolve/netgen repository--the tags are
instead in github.com/ngsolve/ngsolve using ngsolve/netgen as a git
submodule, so for example one can do:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ngsolve/ngsolve -b v6.2.1801
cd external_dependencies/netgen

to get at the proper commit(s), as well. Is that acceptable? The main
reason I wrote 6.2.x is because I expect 6.2.1802 will be out by the
time I'm ready to upload a package to mentors.debian.net.

P.S. I forgot to mention in the initial bug report that we (FreeCAD
commnity) have a discussion going on this topic with one of the
upstream developers, Mathias Hochsteger, in this thread: https://forum.
freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26278&start=100