Bug#1024551: ITP: fiat -- Fortran IFS and Arpege Toolkit

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie>]

On 21/11/2022 11:28, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 2022-11-21 10:10, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 
> > debian-science@lists.debian.org
> >
> > * Package name    : fiat
> >   Version         : 1.0.0
> >   Upstream Author : ECMWF <info@ecmwf.int>
> > * URL             : https://github.com/ecmwf-ifs/fiat
> > * License         : Apache
> >   Programming Lang: C, Fortran
> >   Description     : Fortran IFS and Arpege Toolkit
> >
> >  FIAT is a collection of selected Fortran utility libraries, 
> > extracted from
> >  the IFS/Arpege model used at ECMWF.
> >  It provides:
> >    drhook : tracing
> >    gstats : timing
> >    parkind : choose precision
> >    mpl : MPI communication
> >    mpi_serial: MPI dummy symbols compiled into static library other
> > various routines
> >  .
> >  ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
> >
> >  FIAT is a new dependency of the atlas-ecmwf library already in 
> > Debian, as ECMWF
> >  is open-sourcing its stack.
>
>
> Hi Alastair, note that namespace FIAT is occupied by the python 
> package python3-fiat (src:fiat), used by python3-ffc and related 
> FEniCS/Dolfin packages (python3-dolfin etc).
>
> We could consider moving FEniCS FIAT to src:fenics-fiat, but perhaps 
> that is administrative overkill. On the other hand I did do that for 
> other FEniCS components for the next generation fenicsx. I didn't 
> change the source package name for components of old fenics on the 
> grounds that they are in a sense deprecated and could be removed in 
> the future.  Removal would be in the far future though, since some 
> groups are still using old fenics for calculations.  To complicate the 
> point further, while the new fenicsx library no longer uses FEniCS 
> FIAT, it is being developed further by the firedrake project at 
> https://github.com/firedrakeproject/fiat (Debian has not packaged 
> firedrake itself yet).
>
> Alternatively your FIAT could be src:ecmwf-fiat.
>
> Which naming solution looks best for you?
>
> Drew

Hi Drew

Thanks. I hadn't spotted that with "apt-cache search fiat" missing src:fiat.

My preference is for "fiat-ecmwf", as there is a consistency with 
"atlas-ecmwf" and "silo-llnl"

Best regards

Alastair


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