Bug#996204: transition: numerical library stack: hypre SONAME (Policy 8.1)

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On 2021-11-04 22:35, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 2021-11-04 21:41, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > On 2021-11-03 22:33:01 +0100, Drew Parsons wrote:
...
> > > Is it best to revert back to strict Policy 8.1 compliance, which will 
> > > slow
> > > down hypre patch release updates?
> >
> > Yes. Having to wait for binNEW to being processed is not an excuse to
> > violate a must section of the policy.
>
> Fair enough. I'll make the change, either to libhypre2.22.2 or to
> libhypre-static.


I've uploaded hypre 2.22.1-4 providing the shared libraries in 
libhypre-2.22.1 (and libhypre64 counterparts).

I set libhypre-2.22.1 with Provides: libhypre (= 2.22.1), so petsc and 
sundials don't necessarily need to be recompiled.

I also configured hypre to provide the static libraries, so we can 
consider whether to switch petsc and sundials to static hypre in the 
future (we might not want to. Shared libraries have other advantages 
apart from ABI management).

Drew