Bug#781623: harminv: new upstream version (1.4)

2015-03-31 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: harminv Severity: normal A new upstream version of harminv (1.4) is now available; please consider updating as it fixes a bug that prevented some features of harminv from working on non-x86 architectures. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#781624: meep: new upstream version (1.3)

2015-03-31 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: normal Version 1.3 of Meep is now available upstream. It corrects a couple of minor problems and adds one major new feature (near-to-far-field transforms). It also supports the latest version (1.4) of harminv, which you should also consider updating in order to improve

Bug#743465: mpb: MPB 1.5 now available

2014-04-02 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: mpb Version: 1.4.2-18 Severity: normal MPB version 1.5 is now available upstream. This version corrects some longstanding bugs, adds many new features, and supports Guile 2.x, FFTW 3.x, and the parallel (MPI) HDF5 libraries. In consequence, it should greatly improve Debian packaging

Bug#743466: meep: Meep 1.2.1 available upstream

2014-04-02 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: normal Version 1.2.1 is now available upstream; among other things, this corrects a serious bug with PML absorbing boundaries for dispersive materials. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64

Bug#743467: libctl: new upstream release (version 3.2.2)

2014-04-02 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libctl Severity: normal Version 3.2.2 is available upstream and corrects a couple of minor bugs. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#741851: fftw3: new upstream release (FFTW 3.3.4)

2014-03-16 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Version: 3.1.2-1 Severity: normal FFTW 3.3.4 is now available upstream (at www.fftw.org), with a couple of minor API additions, support for texinfo 5, and small bug fixes. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#728556: libnlopt0: new upstream release (2.4)

2013-11-02 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libnlopt0 Version: 2.3+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Version 2.4 of NLopt is available upstream (http://ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt). Also, there is now a git repository on github; if you have patches, please consider submitting a pull request (https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt). -- System

Bug#694401: libfftw3-3: new upstream release (3.3.3)

2012-11-25 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libfftw3-3 Version: 3.2.2-1 Severity: normal A new upstream release (3.3.3) is available from the FFTW home page (www.fftw.org). This release fixes deadlock bugs in MPI (parallel) transforms, and also includes some speed improvements. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT

Bug#684338: libopenblas-base: disable processor affinity

2012-08-08 Thread Steven G. Johnson
processor affinity in OpenBLAS if it is compiled in, and in any case disabling processor affinity is a more sensible default. Regards, Steven G. Johnson PS. You probably also want to set the maximum number of threads in OpenBLAS by compiling with the NUM_THREADS=xxx flag. Otherwise, the maximum

Bug#684344: libopenblas-base: please install OpenMP version

2012-08-08 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libopenblas-base Severity: wishlist Currently, Debian installs the version of OpenBLAS that uses pthreads parallelism. In addition to this, or perhaps instead of this, it would be nice to have a version that uses OpenMP parallelism (compile with USE_OPENMP=1). The main reason for an

Bug#684345: libopenblas-base: new upstream release (0.2.2)

2012-08-08 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libopenblas-base Version: 0.1.1-5 Severity: wishlist Version 0.2.2 is available from http://xianyi.github.com/OpenBLAS/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16

Bug#682253: meep-mpi: new upstream release (1.2)

2012-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep-mpi Severity: wishlist A new upstream version (Meep 1.2) is now available from the Meep web page (ab-initio.mit.edu/meep). Among other new features, this release adds support for Guile version 2.x. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#682254: libctl: new upstream release (libctl 3.2)

2012-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libctl3 Version: 3.1.0-2 Severity: wishlist File: libctl A new upstream release is available from the libctl web page (ab-initio.mit.edu/libctl). Among other features, this release adds support for Guile version 2.x. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable

Bug#682257: gcc-mingw32: amd64-mingw32msvc-g++ is missing

2012-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: gcc-mingw32 Version: 4.4.4-0.1+b1 Severity: normal The 32-bit MinGW cross-compiler (i586-mingw32msvc-g++) is included in the package, but amd64-mingw32msvc-g++ is apparently missing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#682273: libnlopt0: new upstream release (2.3)

2012-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libnlopt0 Severity: normal A new release (2.3) is available from upstream (ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt), which adds some minor features and corrects a few bugs. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Bug#661867: fftw3: new upstream release (3.3.1)

2012-03-01 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Version: 3.1.2-1 Severity: wishlist A new release (3.3.1) is available from upstream, with various minor improvements over version 3.3. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#619324: libfftw3-3 segfaults on amd64

2011-07-06 Thread Steven G . Johnson
I have the same problem using inverse FFT in GNURADIO. The code works on 32bit only. I tried your code snippet, turning it into a stand-alone program by filling in a few missing declarations and functions (e.g. gri_complex and inbuf_length) with what they obviously should be, and it

Bug#619324: the bug is in your program, not FFTW

2011-06-20 Thread Steven G . Johnson
). http://fftw.org/doc/Fortran_002dinterface-routines.html Regards, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600976: python-openopt: enable NLopt solvers

2010-10-21 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: python-openopt Version: 0.31+svn760-1 Severity: wishlist OpenOpt 0.31 added a number of new solvers based on the free NLopt library. It would be nice if the Debian OpenOpt package used these solvers, adding a Suggests or Recommends for the nlopt package. Depends on bug #589692 for

Bug#600676: openopt: new upstream version (0.31)

2010-10-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: openopt Severity: wishlist A new upstream release is now available. Note that several of the new solvers in this release require the free NLopt library to be packaged (bug #589692). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#589692: RFP: libnlopt -- a multi-language library for nonlinear optimization

2010-07-19 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libnlopt Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Steven G. Johnson stev...@alum.mit.edu * URL : http://ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt/ * License : (LGPL) Programming Lang: (C, C++, Python, Guile, Octave) Description

Bug#534722: closed by Paul Brossier p...@debian.org (Re: Bug#534722:)

2009-10-31 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Since your example doesn't correspond to any actual usage of FFTW, it's not clear to me how you think it is relevant. Regards, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#534722:

2009-10-10 Thread Steven G. Johnson
to re-interpret an array of real numbers as an array of complex numbers of half the length.) Regards, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#543431: meep: New upstream version (1.1.1)

2009-08-24 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: wishlist The latest upstream version is now 1.1.1; please update the Debian package when you get a chance as a lot of improvements have accumulated since the version currently in Debian! -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#386791: same problem in 2009

2009-07-26 Thread Steven G. Johnson
not get new configuration changes.) The workaround, as noted by others, was to do: chown root:bind /etc/bind/rndc.key That file had somehow been set to be owned by user identd, group telnetd. This bug report has been open for YEARS now. Any sign of progress? Regards, Steven G. Johnson

Bug#532934: h5utils: new upstream version 1.12

2009-06-12 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: h5utils Version: 1.10-7+b1 Severity: important A new upstream release (1.12) is now available (http://ab-initio.mit.edu/h5utils). The current Debian package is based on h5utils 1.10 (4 years old!), which contains a bug that renders an important part of h5utils (h5topng) unusable (see

Bug#525176: fixed upstream in version 1.11.1

2009-06-12 Thread Steven G. Johnson
This bug was fixed upstream in version 1.11.1. The latest upstream release is version 1.12. Please update the Debian package! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530868: meep: New upstream version (1.0.1)

2009-05-28 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: wishlist A new upstream version (1.0.1) is available. This release includes fixes for occasional testsuite failures under some versions of gcc on some platforms, and also corrects Debian bug #505002. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable

Bug#526352: meep: New upstream version (Meep 1.0)

2009-04-30 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Version: 0.20.3-2 Severity: wishlist A new version (1.0) is available upstream (ab-initio.mit.edu/meep). Note that the configure script of Meep 1.0 is more aggressive about picking compiler flags than previous versions, and by default picks an -march flag based on the build host,

Bug#515223: fftw3: new upstream version (3.2.1)

2009-02-14 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Severity: wishlist A new upstream version (3.2.1) is available from www.fftw.org. Thanks for your efforts! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#505842: fftw3: new upstream version (3.2)

2008-11-15 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Version: 3.1.2-1 Severity: normal A new upstream version 3.2 of FFTW is now available from the FFTW web page, containing a number of performance improvements over 3.1.x. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#491579: h5utils: new upstream version (1.11.1)

2008-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: h5utils Version: 1.10-5 Severity: wishlist A new release (1.11.1) is available from upstream. The main Debian-visible changes are that the new version works with HDF5 version 1.8, and no longer reverses the dimension order in h5tovtk. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#491581: meep-mpi: please create Open MPI version

2008-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep-mpi Severity: wishlist It would be very nice to have a version using Open MPI in addition to MPICH, as the former is growing in popularity rapidly because of its ease-of-use and clean new design. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500,

Bug#491583: meep-mpi: use libhdf5-parallel

2008-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep-mpi Severity: normal Currently, the meep-mpi package uses libhdf5-serial. However, the I/O in Meep's MPI version is much more robust, especially on clusters with distributed filesystems, if you use the parallel version of libhdf5. (The parallel I/O in Meep using libhdf5-serial

Bug#491593: meep: new upstream version 0.20.1

2008-07-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: normal Version 0.20.1 is out; please upgrade to this rather than to version 0.20. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686

Bug#491516: meep: new upstream version 0.20

2008-07-19 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: meep Severity: normal We (upstream) have released a new version of Meep, version 0.20, which adds a number of features. Note that this release requires that you update libctl to version 3.0.3 (see bug #491356). It also should address #455289 so that no patching of the Meep source is

Bug#459853: bibtex2html: new upstream version (1.89)

2008-01-08 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: bibtex2html Severity: wishlist A new version (1.89) is available from the upstream authors at http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/ -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#435206: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435206: octplot: copyright incorrectly listed as GPL version 2 only

2007-07-30 Thread Steven G. Johnson
(e.g. Copyright (c) 2007 Yoyodyne, Inc.) where the program specifies (or doesn't specify) the GPL version number. Regards, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435275: octave2.9-headers depends on gcc-3.4

2007-07-30 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: octave2.9-headers Version: 2.9.9-8etch1 Severity: wishlist In order to install octave2.9-headers, you have to install gcc-3.4 and friends. Could this please be upgraded to gcc-4.1, since most people nowadays will probably want the newer version? -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#435214: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: octave-sp: license is neither GPL-compatible nor DFSG-free

2007-07-30 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I think that you are right: the sentence in the COPYRIGHT file is ambiguous and must be clarified. However, before contacting the upstream author, I would like to know whether this package works with Octave 2.9. Does anyone know? I have never

Bug#435302: gwc: license clarification: GPL version 2 or later, not version 2 only

2007-07-30 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: gwc Version: 0.21.05-1 Severity: minor The debian/copyright file for gwc states: The program is under the General Public License version 2. However, if you look at the source code, gwc in fact seems to be under version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For example, the

Bug#435205: octave: copyright file incorrectly lists GPLv2 only

2007-07-29 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: octave Version: 1:2.1.73-13 Severity: minor The /usr/share/doc/octave2.1/copyright file incorrectly states that Octave is GPL version 2 only. In fact, every source file contains a copyright statement like the following (from src/octave.cc): Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W.

Bug#435206: octplot: copyright incorrectly listed as GPL version 2 only

2007-07-29 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: octplot Version: 0.3.9-3 Severity: minor The /usr/share/doc/octplot/copyright lists the license as being GPL (and some LGPL) version 2, but all of the source files list the license as being version 2 or (at your option), any later version. For example, src/octplot_main.cpp reads: //

Bug#435208: gromacs: copyright incorrectly listed as GPL version 2 only

2007-07-29 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: gromacs Version: 3.3.1-5 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/gromacs/copyright lists the license as being GPL version 2 only, but this does not seem to be correct. All of the source files list the license as being GPL version 2 or later. e.g the file src/kernel/grompp.c says: *

Bug#435209: labplot: GPL and licensing clarifications needed

2007-07-29 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: labplot Version: 1.5.1.6-1 Severity: minor Several clarifications seem to be needed with respect to the license seem to be needed in the copyright file. 1) First, the NetCDF license listed states: Further, UCAR requests that the user credit UCAR/Unidata in any publications

Bug#435214: octave-sp: license is neither GPL-compatible nor DFSG-free

2007-07-29 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: octave-sp Version: 1:2003-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 The copyright file lists the following: COPYRIGHT 1994 LIEVEN VANDENBERGHE AND STEPHEN BOYD Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby granted,

Bug#379288: #379288 release-critical?

2007-01-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Roger L. Hale wrote: To the contrary, fftw2 depends on libmpich1.0c2, which depends on libg2c0, which depends on gcc-3.4-base, on this end-user machine. I was thinking of fftw3, not fftw2, but thanks for mentioning this. The MPI libraries in fftw2 should be split into a separate package,

Bug#408018: fftw2 should split MPI libraries into a separate package

2007-01-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw2 Version: 2.1.3-20 Severity: normal Currently, the fftw2 package installs the serial, threads, and MPI (distributed-memory) libraries. The latter means that fftw2 depends on an MPI implementation (currently MPICH). This is undesirable because the vast majority of packages

Bug#379288: #379288 release-critical?

2007-01-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
-user machines. (FFTW currently depends on g77 on the *build* machines, but this could be easily changed, if desired, as described in bug #392301.) Regards, Steven G. Johnson (FFTW upstream developer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#392301: fftw3: please upgrade to gfortran from g77

2007-01-01 Thread Steven G. Johnson
developers (and some programs?). Regards, Steven G. Johnson PS. On the other hand, I can certainly see the motivation for switching to gfortran: g77 is not available in recent gcc versions, and thus including it in the build-depends requires the build machine to install a bunch of legacy gcc code

Bug#392301: fftw3: please upgrade to gfortran from g77

2007-01-01 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Steven G. Johnson wrote: If you configure FFTW with gfortran (e.g. if gfortran is present but not g77), then FFTW will be callable from gfortran and most other Fortran compilers, but not from g77. Actually, a workaround is to configure FFTW with ./configure F77

Bug#225959: this problem was fixed in FFTW 3.1

2006-07-05 Thread Steven G. Johnson
PowerPCs not supporting Altivec, on which machine the Altivec code in FFTW is disabled at runtime. Cordially, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#376967: fftw3: new upstream version (3.1.2)

2006-07-05 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Version: 3.0.1-11 Severity: important Version 3.1.2 of FFTW is now available upstream. This release corrects a bug where configure --enable-portable-binary could sometimes be ignored, causing FFTW to be erroneously built with gcc -march instead of gcc -mtune. The resulting binary

Bug#361676: libctl: new upstream version 3.0

2006-04-09 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: libctl Severity: wishlist A new version 3.0 of libctl is available upstream. This version is required for the new Meep package available upstream and will be required for future MPB releases. It should be backwards compatible with the MPB 1.4.2 currently available in Debian, although

Bug#344152: workaround

2006-02-01 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I had the same problem (Debian/testing/x86). A workaround is to edit /usr/bin/webmagick to change the line #410 defining $opt_thumbfont to: $opt_thumbfont = 'courier'; # Label font -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#350327: fftw3: new upstream version

2006-01-28 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: fftw3 Version: 3.0.1-11 Severity: normal FFTW version 3.1 is now available from www.fftw.org. This release fixes Debian bugs #259612 (the old workaround is now obsolete), #321566, and #225959, and hopefully #338487. It should be backwards compatible. Note that there are a couple of

Bug#332313: autoconf-archive: acx_pthread.m4 doesn't work

2005-11-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
correctly. As is clearly described in the documentation for this macro, it expects you to use the $CFLAGS for *both* compiling *and* linking. If you do this, then gcc should automatically link -lthread when you pass -pthread during linking. Cordially, Steven G. Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#326402: h5utils: new upstream version (1.10)

2005-09-02 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Package: h5utils Version: 1.9.1-1 Severity: wishlist h5utils 1.10 is now available upstream. Note that it provides a new program, h4fromh5, to compensate for the fact that NCSA no longer ships the h5toh4 program with HDF5 (and it no longer seems to be in Debian). Note that you should