Bug#835397: transition: superlu soname 4 -> 5

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertag: transition
Control: submitter -1 Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 14:48:17 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:

> Hi dear release team,
> 
> I'd like to request a transition slot to trigger the superlu transition
> from 4.3 to 5.2.1 soon, once the auto-petsc/auto-slepc transition is
> stabilised.  All architectures have built superlu 5.2.1 in
> experimental.
> 
We want transition requests in the BTS.

Cheers,
Julien

> The main action involved with the superlu transition is to make a
> sourceful upload of petsc 3.7 to reinstate support for superlu (it was
> deactivated to make the transitions simpler).
> 
> The packages listed under the auto-superlu transition are:
>     superlu
>     armadillo
>     getfem++
>     hypre
>     pysparse
>     petsc
>     slepc
>     dolfin
> 
> Before proceeding with the superlu transition, I'd like to request a
> binNMU of dolfin (and perhaps aster and deal.ii as well) in order to
> clear the auto-petsc transition
> 
> The auto-superlu transition stats are
>     Affected: .depends ~ /\b(libsuperlu5|libsuperlu4|libsuperlu4\-dbg)\b/
>     Good: .depends ~ /\b(libsuperlu5)\b/
>     Bad: .depends ~ /\b(libsuperlu4|libsuperlu4\-dbg)\b/
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Drew
>