Bug#458812: are you still interested in packaging code aster ?

[Alexandre Fayolle <afayolle@debian.org>]

Le Thursday 16 April 2009 19:28:06 Adam C Powell IV, vous avez écrit :
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 19:05 +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm interested in packaging Code Aster for Debian. Are you still working
> > on this? Is there any way I could help you?
>
> Great.  My packages are very old, haven't tried the newest version yet,
> but you're welcome to them.  Hmm, they're living on a machine which is
> not currently on the net...  Will get everything to you ASAP.

Thanks a lot. 

> Unfortunately, Aster requires MUMPS, and my MUMPS packages are held up
> by bugs 491105 and 491028 in blacs and scalapack.  

I'll give these a look tomorrow

> I could just restrict 
> it to MPICH and LAM, but would rather have an OpenMPI version, or one
> using mpi-default-(dev|bin), as neither MPICH(1) nor LAM is currently
> maintained by upstream.

Would packaging mpich2 in Debian help ? 

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Alexandre Fayolle
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