Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

My fortran packages are non-free (pgplot5) or contrib (ifeffit).  I have 
not yet had any time to determine if these are going to cause problems.  I 
am sort of worried though because pgplot5 is quite particular.

Carlo

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Riku Voipio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did
> not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers
> of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain.
>
> If you have suggestions, critique, or you are busy but accept NMU'ing
> your packages for gfortran transition.. please speak now.
>
> Some of the packages gfortran transition affects are also affected by
> the long double transition. This includes atleast the following fortran
> packages:
>
> lam, atlas3, fftw3, hdf5, mpich1.0, petsc, pdl
>
> Therefor, I think it would make sense to start g77 -> gfortran
> transition promptly, to avoid transitioning same packages twice.

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