Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 21:22 +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > > But do we need to be pedantic about upstream pdf files? > > > > Our petsc distribution would be in principle be improved if we were > > to > > include the pdf manuals. > > Yeah, I completely understand. Especially seeing as we now have > t

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 19:21 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi Drew > > On 19 September 2015 at 10:46, Drew Parsons > wrote: > > As far as the win32 exe goes, maintenance would be simpler if we > > didn't > > have to generate a separate dfsg-free upstream tarball just to > > remove a > > file that w

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Drew On 19 September 2015 at 10:46, Drew Parsons wrote: > As far as the win32 exe goes, maintenance would be simpler if we didn't > have to generate a separate dfsg-free upstream tarball just to remove a > file that we don't use. Are you aware of UscanEnhancements[1]? You can now use the 'Fi

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Walter Landry
Drew Parsons wrote: > What is Debian policy on pdf documentation in upstream source? > > > dolfin needs an updated petsc to run optimally (multiple processors). > And dolfin is cool, so I'll update petsc (the latest version at > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc is 3.6.1). > > We've been using a df

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Riley Baird
> But do we need to be pedantic about upstream pdf files? > > Our petsc distribution would be in principle be improved if we were to > include the pdf manuals. Yeah, I completely understand. Especially seeing as we now have things like libreoffice-pdfimport. But the FTP masters have specifically

DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
What is Debian policy on pdf documentation in upstream source? dolfin needs an updated petsc to run optimally (multiple processors). And dolfin is cool, so I'll update petsc (the latest version at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc is 3.6.1). We've been using a dfsg version of petsc. The dfsg impact