transition: petsc 3.7: are aster and getdp ready?

Now that dolfin 2016.1.0 is released upstream, we'll bring PETSc 3.7 (and SLEPc 3.7) into unstable soon. They are already available in experimental. I'm writing to alert the maintainers and uploaders of aster and getdp, which use petsc.  Are these packages ready for petsc 3.7? Note that petsc

transition: ntl

Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition The transition is to a (much) newer version of NTL, going from version 6.2.1 to version 9.9.1. The auto-generated ntl transition page doesn't list flint-arb as a dep, but it

petsc 3.7 FTBFS on armhf

Dear arm64 porters, petsc 3.7 (in experimental) fails to build on armhf (the previous version petsc 3.6 built fine). The log is  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=petsc=armhf=3.7.2.dfsg1-1exp1=1467425583 The build passes configuration, compiles, but failings at the final linking

request for help: petsc 3.7 FTBFS on arm64 (openmpi shared library support?)

Dear arm64 porters, petsc 3.7 (in experimental) fails to build on arm64 (the previous version petsc 3.6 built fine). The log is  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=petsc=arm64=3.7.2.dfsg1-1exp1=1467423533 with an error during the configuration when testing MPI (configureMPIEXEC):