On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 16:08 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > spda has 3 FTBFS problems. Firstly, it hardcodes in the Makefile a > reference to an > versioned external package (mumps 4.10), which is not available. > Secondly, no Build-Depends on mumps 4.10 is given. > > Thirdly, it should not be pulling in mumps source anyway. The mumps > library is available (now upgraded to 5.1), why is sdpa not using it?
Should sdpa use the Built-Using field (policy 7.8)? The version in any case shouldn't be hardwired in the build scripts. Just use the latest available version of mumps (write its version into the Built-Using field of the sdpa binary packages).

