[Dune-devel] ALBERTA support in Debian packages for DUNE

[Oliver Sander]

Hi,
can the AlbertaGrid maintainers comment on this?  What are the chances of
having an official Alberta 3.0 release in the nearer future?  Replacing
Alberta 2.0 by Alberta 3.0 in Debian would mean one reason less to support
Alberta 2.0 in dune-grid.
Cheers,
Oliver

Am 04.03.2014 11:12, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> Hi,
> 
> as Debian includes ALBERTA 2.0.1 [1], I enabled support for ALBERTA in
> the Debian packages for DUNE. However with a new version of SuperLU a
> problem appeared[2]:
> 
>   [1] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/libalberta2>
>   [2] <https://bugs.debian.org/740285>
> 
> Both ALBERTA 2.0.1 and SuperLU provide the function "print_int_vec" and
> cannot be used at the same time[3]. This was already discussed in a bug
> report in DUNE's bug tracker[4] and the function in ALBERTA was renamed
> in order to avoid the name conflict.
> 
>   [3] <https://bugs.debian.org/740285>
>   [4] <https://dune-project.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=831>
> 
> However there has been no (stable) release of ALBERTA with the renamed
> function so far.
> 
> Currently I see these options:
> 
> a, Package a ALBERTA 3 snapshot or release candidate for Debian. This
> requires someone to do this. I don't use ALBERTA myself and don't really
> want to package non-release versions, but might still look at it if
> there are users for the packages.
> 
> b, Ask upstream for a ALBERTA 2.0.2 release which backports the rename
> to ALBERTA 2.
> 
> c, Rename "print_int_vec" in ALBERTA with a Debian-specific patch. But
> changing the API in a Debian-specific patch is really something to avoid.
> 
> d, Disable support for ALBERTA in Debian's DUNE packages.
> 
> Options (b) or (d) would mean the least work, but providing a current
> ALBERTA version with (a) might also be nice for users of the library. It
> would be nice to know if an ALBERTA 3 release is planned too. Option (c)
> I would really like to avoid.
> 
> Any opinions from other people?
> 
> Regards,
> Ansgar
> 
> 
> 
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