Re: future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Ondrej Certik writes:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks Matthias for raising this issue. I am interested in helping with
> this. 
> 
> We need to maintain the packages in a svn/git repository and I suggest
> we simply create new packges, something like 
> 
> libatlas3.8-*
> 
> or something. We get it compile, we get it to debian and we start fixing
> all potential problems. Let's have both atlas 3.6 and atlas 3.8 and
> users will simply use those, that work. When we get 3.8 in a good shape,
> we may then for example remove the libatlas-* packages and provide them
> with libatlas3.8-* etc. 

please don't rename the package without reason. uploads to
experimental should do fine here.

  Matthias