> my recommendation is to disable parmetis in trilinos and defer the > problem until anybody actually requires it.
Sure, why not. > how many (license) problems are left without parmetis? Not sure. If you build without parmetis (remove the dependency from debian/control and debian/rules), does the builder still complain? --Nico On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Felix Salfelder <fe...@salfelder.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:33:26AM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote: >> Are there general Debian guidelines for such situations? > > i'm sorry i don't know or care. i'm not even sure in which way non-free > is (not) a part of debian. > >> What's your opinion on this? > > imo it's best to avoid trouble (here: non-free packages). > > my recommendation is to disable parmetis in trilinos and defer the > problem until anybody actually requires it. if that is you, hopefully > somebody else will step in and help. > > how many (license) problems are left without parmetis? > > regards > felix -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers