Hi, As you may have seen, the state of the atlas package is not good. It has not transitioned from unstable to testing for a long time, because of several RC bugs difficult to handle. I have been discussing this issue with Sylvestre Ledru, the maintainer of atlas. Even though he has not made a decision yet, he is now considering the possibility of removing atlas from the archive. I am going to help him maintain the package but I am not sure that we can solve the various issues. Especially there are FTBFS on several release architectures and upstream seems not willing to help. The good news is that we have an alternative to atlas, namely openblas, which is packaged in unstable and should hopefully transition soon to testing. I have tested it with Dynare and it seems fast and stable. Also note that when the new (netlib) blas/lapack packages transition to testing, atlas will be broken in testing (unless we manage to have a new version of atlas into testing, which is far from guaranteed as explained above). The cause of this breakage is the renaming from libblas.so.3gf to libblas.so.3. All in all, it is becoming likely that we will have to change the Recommends field of octave from atlas to openblas. This may even have to be done for Wheezy. -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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