Here's an update on the status for getting packages ready for inclusion in the next Ubuntu LTS release.
1. Johannes needs all releases to be ready by Monday. That will give him a couple of days to prepare the packages. Which releases do we want to make? There have been JIT compiler fixes in FFC and UFL that would be good to get in, and also updates in DOLFIN. We have also made changes to Instant. The buildbot is failing for Instant but I don't know why. 2. Unfortunately the DOLFIN package needs to be build without CGAL and ParMETIS. The reason is that both CGAL and ParMETIS are in the non-free section of Debian. I knew from before that ParMETIS has a non-free license (which makes an even stronger case for SCOTCH) but I don't know why CGAL is in non-free. Anyone else knows why? If DOLFIN is compiled against CGAL or ParMETIS then the DOLFIN package would depend on a non-free package, which would place DOLFIN in the contrib section, which for technical Debian reasons places DOLFIN in the "NEW" queue, which means Johannes cannot upload but must get someone else with higher "Debian security clearance" to upload and that will take a while. There would also be a similar problem for the FEniCS meta package. So DOLFIN will be built without CGAL and ParMETIS in Ubuntu, but will be available with these dependencies in Launchpad PPA. We should sort out our dependencies for future releases. -- Anders
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