Hi tony, On 2021-12-11 16:14, tony mancill wrote: > My first question is, do we have users? Is the software useful to > maintain in Debian? The popcon for the package is low (around 15) and > there haven't been recent bug reports. If there are users, I will > gladly prepare an update.
No idea. > And if we do update in Debian, I thought readers of this list might have > opinions about whether I should switch the Debian packaging from > building against lapack to openblas. We have registered libblas.so and liblapack.so with our update-alternatives mechanism. After installing libopenblas with apt, jblas will automatically switch to use openblas without recompilation. The blas and lapack libraries provide a (mostly consistent API/ABIs). It is not necessary to switch to a specific BLAS. You may add openblas to the Recommends: dependency field as a strong preference on faster implementations. I have already done that for a couple of computation intensive packages, e.g., caffe, pytorch, etc. > Thank you for your input! > tony > > P.S. Thank you to Andreas Tille for directing me to the right list. > This is a cross-post of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/12/msg00051.html.
