Jérôme Warnier wrote [on debian-release [0]]: [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/01/msg00759.html
> I'm wondering if bug #379288 (lapack3 still depends on libg2c0 while > gfortran is now the default fortran compiler) shouldn't be tagged as > release-critical? As Matthias said [1], gfortran is not yet (to the best of my knowledge) an acceptable Fortran77 compiler, although GNU is working in that direction. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/01/msg00760.html Please additionally see previous emails I've written about g77 vs. gfortran, e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/09/msg00071.html To summarize, because g77 and gfortran produce different ABIs by default, there will need to be a coordinated library transition to switch completely from g77 to gfortran, similar to the various g++ transitions, if we are not to have complete chaos among Fortran libraries and apps that use them. This isn't going to be possible for the Etch timeframe. Post-Etch, I am going to see whether I have time to work on this. My preliminary efforts indicate it's going to be rather complicated. > It is indirectly needed by OOo Calc, and is the only reason left on my > Desktop PCs for keeping gcc-3.x packages. Really? Aren't there a number of GNOME packages that use FFTW? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544