Bug#911131: Raising OpenBLAS's priority to 100 in the alternatives system

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 16 octobre 2018 à 06:43 +0000, Mo Zhou a écrit :
> Package: libopenblas-dev
> Version: 0.3.3+ds-1
> Severity: wishlist

> The range between priority numbers of OpenBLAS and Atlas is a bit narrow.
> I think it isn't enough for furture usage when BLIS landed onto the
> archive, especially when we wanted to provide libraries in different
> multi-threading flavors, e.g.
> 
>   OpenBLAS (40) > BLIS/omp (38) [*] > BLIS/pthread (37) [*]
>    > BLIS/serial (36) [*] > Atlas (35) > Netlib (10) > MKL (1)
>    > nvBLAS (-100) [*]
> 
> It's very crowded in the range from 35 to 40. Items marked with [*] are
> in my todo-list. Based on that, I suggest we raise OpenBLAS's priority
> to 100 .

That sounds reasonable. I'll do it in the next upload, but feel free do
to it earlier if you need it urgently.

Best,

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