On Sun, 2017-06-04 at 11:30 -0400, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > Hi Drew, > > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 01:32:47PM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Hi Muammar, are you ready to move your packages to alioth git and > > Debian Science? > > I have just confirmed I was added to Debian Science Team!. I will > start moving > the packages. I probably will write back just to check if I did > things correctly > using the Debian Science Policy.
Great to hear, thanks Muammar. > > > Stretch will be released soon, after that I'm keen to update blacs- > > mpi and/or > > scalapack to build mumps and petsc on the minor architectures. > > That sounds great!. I have some doubts on how to proceed with > scalapack/blacs > because latest scalapack versions come already with a blacs/ source > code in the > tarball. Old blacs isn't updated for powerpcspe. That's a trivial patch, perhaps you could do it on your own source without worrying about loading old blacs onto alioth. I'm interested in getting it into testing (post- stretch), after which we can focus on updating scalapack. As far as the new scalapack goes, Christophe Trophime says he's got preliminary packaging that we could use. Drew
