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Bug#549417: ITP: coinor-bcp -- a framework for constructing parallel branch-cut-price algorithms for mixed-integer linear programs



On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 08:16 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 
> >* Package name    : coinor-bcp
> >  Version         : 1.2.2
> >  Upstream Author : Common Public License 1.0
> 
> I guess that is not right :)

What is not? At least
http://www.coin-or.org/projects/Bcp.xml states exactly this.

> >  Description : a framework for constructing parallel
> 	  branch-cut-price algorithms for mixed-integer linear programs
> 
> Are you aware that BCP is in maintenance only mode? Lazlo Ladanyi, the
> actual upstream author, told me that he will look at bug reports, but
> there won't be any new feature releases.  

That is perfectly fine for me. Scientific software often is like this.
When an algorithm works it is final :)

> I'm not sure that means it should not be packaged for Debian, but I
> thought you should know.

As long as bugreports are dealt with it is fine for me.

Soeren
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