Re: Scotch upgrade [Was: Re: MUMPS and other imminent upgrades]
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> From: "Drew Parsons" <dparsons@debian.org>
> To: "Ghislain Vaillant" <ghisvail@gmail.com>, "Debian Science List" <debian-science@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 11:11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Scotch upgrade [Was: Re: MUMPS and other imminent upgrades]
>
> On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 09:38 +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > On 12/06/17 09:03, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 15:55 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > > Hi Graham, once stretch is clear I want to push the new version
> > > > of
> > > > MUMPS to unstable. Just letting you know and Debian Science know
> > > > in
> > > > case we need to worry about trilinos during the transition.
> > >
> > > In this toolchain, SCOTCH is also due for upgrade. Any takers?
> >
> > I reckon having a look at scotch back when I packaged pyfr (which
> > could
> > use either metis or scotch for graph partitioning), but cannot
> > remember
> > why I did not submit an update in the end.
>
> Thanks Ghislain, that'd be great if you can take on scotch.
>
> > I'll give it another go. Do we agree that we only want to support
> > the
> > latest version (6.0.4) from Buster onwards, and drop the 5.x series
> > currently in the archive?
>
> That's sensible I think. I don't think there's much to be gained by
> keeping the older version around. Scotch's clients (PETSc, FENiCS, etc,
> not sure about trilinos) are well maintained upstream so they should
> have no trouble building against the new scotch.
According to my experience, I've rebuild PETSC, trilinos against 6.0.4 scotch version
and did not observe any problems as for building against the newest scotch.
>
> Drew
>
>
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