Re: Towards lapack / lapack64 packaging

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On 2019-05-17 09:46, Mo Zhou wrote:
> Hi Gard,
>
> On 2019-05-16 20:39, Gard Spreemann wrote:
> > Incidentally, and somewhat off-topic: Do you know if a similar effort 
> > is
> > being made for the PETSc and SLEPc packages (src petsc and slepc)?
>
> Do you mean 64-bit array indexing support for them?
> According to our dependency chain, they are built upon blas and lapack.
> That means the blas64 / lapack64 work is a prerequisite.

Certainly we haven't packaged (or thought to package) petsc64.

But of course it is an option if there is demand for it.

As Mo says, we'd want blas64 / lapack64 settled in before commencing.

Drew