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Re: jblas update to 1.2.5?



Hi tony,

On 2021-12-11 16:14, tony mancill wrote:
> My first question is, do we have users?  Is the software useful to
> maintain in Debian?  The popcon for the package is low (around 15) and
> there haven't been recent bug reports.  If there are users, I will
> gladly prepare an update.

No idea.

> And if we do update in Debian, I thought readers of this list might have
> opinions about whether I should switch the Debian packaging from
> building against lapack to openblas.

We have registered libblas.so and liblapack.so with our
update-alternatives
mechanism. After installing libopenblas with apt, jblas will
automatically
switch to use openblas without recompilation. The blas and lapack
libraries
provide a (mostly consistent API/ABIs).  It is not necessary to switch
to
a specific BLAS. You may add openblas to the Recommends: dependency
field
as a strong preference on faster implementations. I have already done
that for a couple of computation intensive packages, e.g., caffe,
pytorch, etc.

> Thank you for your input!
> tony
> 
> P.S.  Thank you to Andreas Tille for directing me to the right list.
> This is a cross-post of
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/12/msg00051.html.


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