On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 09:29:53AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 07/05/2026 08:52, Francesco Ballarin wrote: > > Package: release.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > > [email protected] > > Control: affects -1 + src:petsc src:slepc src:mumps src:adios2 > > User: [email protected] > > Usertags: transition > > > > Hi, > > we would like to request a transition of the numerical stack libraries, > > namely: > > - PETSc and petsc4py, from 3.24 to 3.25 > > - SLEPc and slepc4py, from 3.24 to 3.25 > > - mumps, from 5.8 to 5.9 > > - adios2, from 2.11 to 2.12 > > petsc has some reproducibility regressions,
These are not actually regressions, but renamed unreproducible packages. > as well as some autopkgtest issues. Can you take a look? > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/petsc This is the usual problem that the release team wants smooth transitions, but Breaks between different soversions of a library would be correct: 40s Get:253 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 libpetsc-real3.25-dev amd64 3.25.2+dfsg1-1 [14.3 MB] 40s Get:254 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 libpetsc-real-dev all 3.25.2+dfsg1-1 [12.6 kB] 40s Get:255 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 libpetsc-real3.24 amd64 3.24.5+dfsg1-2 [7,959 kB] In this case it already fails due to related CMake issues, but running tests with two different soversions of a library linked would anyway be outside of what can be expected to work in the general case. > Cheers, > Emilio cu Adrian
