On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:18:19 Anders Logg wrote: > 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?
Quote from <http://www.cgal.org/license.html>: "Some parts of CGAL are available under the LGPL, other parts are under the QPL" It looks like higher level algorithms are released under QPL. I do not know if we use such parts. Johan > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
