Re: SuperLU

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Should be good to go.

That's dodgy how upstream handled the non-free in MATLAB/time.m.  All
they did was delete Mathwork's copyright statement. It's on their head.

Drew


On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 10:15 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> Drew,
> 
> 5.2.1 came out yesterday with some of my PRs applied. Can you import
> it please? I'd then go through the remaining issues.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nico
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:43 PM Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 11:00 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> > > > More important is that some dfsg files are still in the git
> > tree.  
> > > > MATLAB/{spypart.m,time.m} and DOC/*ug.pdf.
> > >
> > > Aha yes. (Is the user guide really nonfree?)
> > 
> > The argument is that the pdf is the useful bit, like a binary
> > program.
> >  Just as we need the source for binary files, for the same reason
> > we
> > want the source (the latex files) for the pdf files.
> > 
> > 
> > > Unfortunately, I have no experience with automatically creating
> > dfsg
> > > tarballs, and there's a fair chance I'll do it incorrectly. I'd
> > > appreciate if someone could take over from here.
> > 
> > I've tidied up the dfsg handling, listing the reject files in
> > debian/copyright.
> > 
> > The package builds fine (and petsc3.7 seems happy with it).
> > 
> > The last step is to check lintian,
> >   lintian -i superlu_5.2.0+dfsg1-1_amd64.changes
> > 
> > There's a handful of warnings, have a go at fixing them:
> > 
> > W: superlu source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique
> > (paragraph at line 109)
> >  There are 2 licence short-names "permissive". Give one a distinct
> >  short name from the other. permissive-colamd or something.
> > 
> > 
> > W: superlu source: ancient-standards-version 3.9.5 (current is
> > 3.9.8)
> > 
> > 
> > W: libsuperlu5-dbg: empty-binary-package
> >   Looks like debug symbols automatically went into libsuperlu5-
> > dbgsym,
> >   so libsuperlu5-dbg is redundant (i.e. rename in debian/control.
> > Or
> > specify -dbg as the debug package in debian/rules, e.g. with
> > dh_strip).
> > 
> > Thanks for your packaging efforts.
> > Drew
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nico
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:48 PM Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.or
> > g>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 09:49 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> > > > > I've pushed some more changes to [1] (including a patch) and
> > it's
> > > > now
> > > > > compiling and installing alright. I guess a review would be
> > in
> > > > order.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Nico
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] alioth:/git/debian-science/packages/superlu.git
> > > >
> > > > 
> >