Hi all, Yes, debundling Kokkos from Trilinos is the sensible way forward.
I only have some minor concerns that we will need to ensure that Trilinos still builds against external Kokkos before uploading a new Kokkos version. Best, Matthias On Sun, Mar 8, 2026, at 16:38 CDT, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > there was a meeting of the Kokkos working group taking care about > building and packaging in December. > The Kokkos Team would prefer a package provided independently of > Trilinos. > https://github.com/kokkos/development/blob/cb4f1a1b45cdfaf5ae20d792cd42750ef50aea76/meeting_notes/wg-build-packaging/2025_12_16_notes.md?plain=1#L50 > > The main reasons are projects depending on Kokkos without a Trilinos > dependency and the development outside of the Trilinos ecosystem. > > Are there concerns or objections regarding a separation of the Kokkos > package from the Trilinos package by the Debian Trilinos maintainers > and uploaders? > > Best > Nils

