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