Possible liblapack transition

Version 3.2 of the lapack library has been released. As regards the version currently in Debian unstable (3.1.1), the API has changed:

According to one of the upstream authors we contacted, the *LASQ* routines were not intended to be used in normal end-user programs. These were highly specialized routines for internal use by the Lapack library. The ZCGESV is a a prototype."new" end-user routine, although it was introduced experimentally in 3.1.1 as a prototype.

The packages listed below build-depend on liblapack-dev. The columns in the table show whether the package builds correctly against liblapack-dev 3.2.0-1 (the version currently in experimental) and whether any of its files need one of the symbols cited above (this test was done by running nm on all files contained in the package).

RafaelLaboissiere and ?SylvestreLedru are coordinating this transition.

package

version

need symbol

build

comments

abinit

arpack

arpack++

atlas

cernlib

clp

1.9.0-1

(./)

coinutils

2.4.0-1

(./)

cvxopt

1.1-1

(./)

dsdp

5.8-6

(./)

geant321

3.21.14.dfsg-8

(./)

ghemical

2.98-2

(./)

gimp-plugin-registry

1.0-1

(./)

gretl

1.8.0-2

(./)

harminv

1.3.1-2

(./)

hypre

2.4.0b-1

(./)

jags

1.0.3-1

(./)

libghemical

2.98-2

(./)

libitpp

4.0.6-2

(./)

linbox

1.1.6~rc0-3

(./)

mclibs

2006.dfsg.2-5

(./)

meep

0.20.3-1

(./)

mn-fit

5.13-6

[attachment:mn-fit_5.13-6_amd64.build FTBFS on my amd64 sid chroot] -- RL

mpb

1.4.2-12

(./)

mpqc

2.3.1-5

(./)

necpp

1.3.0+cvs20090101-1

(./)

octave3.0

1:3.0.4~rc5-1

(./)

octave3.1

3.1.53-1

(./)

openmx

3.2.4.dfsg-3

(./)

openturns

0.12.2-2

(./)

paw

2.14.04.dfsg.2-6

(./)

petsc

2.3.3-15

(./)

psicode

3.3.0-4

(./)

pysparse

1.0.1-5

(./)

python-numarray

1.5.2-4

(./)

python-numeric

24.2-9

(./)

python-numpy

1.2.1-1

(./)

python-scipy

0.6.0-12

[attachment:python-scipy_0.6.0-12_amd64.build FTBFS on my amd64 sid chroot] -- RL

r-base

2.8.1-2

(./)

r-base-core-ra

1.2.4-2

(./)

scalapack

1.8.0-3

(./)

shogun

0.6.7-1

(./)

suitesparse

3.2.0-4

(./)

symeig

1.5-1

(./)