Greetings, arpack was removed from lenny and sid because of non-free clauses in its license, see bug 491794 for details. Note this bug was filed after the freeze. It is an important scientific computation package for parallel linear system analysis which is in etch. Recently upstream changed its license so it is DFSG-free. I built and uploaded it with minimal changes, and it is now in unstable. I think that because arpack is in etch and is used by many prominent programs, such as the Elmer finite element multiphysics package, it should really be part of the lenny release. Furthermore, this would "reward" upstream for changing the license at the request of Debian maintainers. Therefore please un-freeze arpack so it can transition into testing and release with lenny. [Please either include debian-science in replies, or CC me, as I'm not subscribed to debian-release.] Regards, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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