Upstream has at the very least moved files around, and based on the changelog that upstream posted, there are definitely ABI breaks. I did go through the files and update d/copyright, but I need to do one final pass before I push it. I plan on doing that in the next week or so.
James On Mon, 14 May 2018, 6:27 am Dima Kogan, <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > > > I need to package the R interface to sundials[1] which contains a code > > copy of some more recent version than the Debian package. I wonder > > whether there is some reason to stick to version 2.7.0 while upstream > > has released 3.1.1. > > Hi. Lack of time is the only reason. I chip away at this periodically > and it's getting closer, but the whole this isn't yet done. Packages in > git currently build and their tests pass, but a few things still need > doing. Current list in no particular order: > > - MPI tests now hit this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839387 > > To make these pass I use the nofakeroot script from that report. This > is a hack, but I don't know exactly how to do this properly yet. I > asked the question in that report, which hopefully will be answered. > > - There's a new cmake option: SUNDIALS_INDEX_TYPE that can be set to > either int32_t or int64_t. With the former, the FORTRAN interface to > KLU refuses to build. With the latter, LAPACK support refuses to > build. The cmake invocation complains in both cases. The git tree > currently chooses int32_t. Somebody needs to understand this > limitation. The previous release of sundials supposedly supported both > LAPACK and talking to KLU with FORTRAN, and we should keep both if we > can. > > - The examples patches need rebasing. These were heavily patched to > allow the examples to work with installed libraries (user installs > packages, grabs examples from /usr/share/doc/... and is able to build > and run them). Patches were needed because the makefiles were assuming > in-tree building of examples only. > > - Upstream is bumping the SONAME. Would be good to run > abi-compliance-checker to see how broken the ABIs really are. > > - There're many new sub-libraries. These are called sunlinsol_... I > don't know what these are yet. Maybe we should be shipping new > packages? > > I'll get everything done, but if we need to get it done faster, I'll > need help. That said, feel free to pester me, that definitely gets > things moving :) I'll poke at it more today. > > dima > >
