Mo Zhou writes ("MBF: don't build against libatlas3-base if possible"):
> Type: performance improvement, integration
> Affected: `apt rdepends libatlas3-base`
> Severity: importantHi. I would like to congratulate you on your work so far. I am no expert on this area but from what I read, I want to encourage you :-). I wanted to comment on this MBF. If what you say is true, it seems right in principle. However, your MBF proposal email was missing the bug template. I think it's important to give the MBF recipients a clear set of instructions on what to change. And to assume that they may not know what they are doing :-). Your email gives clear instructions on what change to the .deb is wanted: > [...] Ideally any program that needs BLAS/CBLAS ABIs should link > against libblas.so.3 instead of libcblas.so.3 (note the char "c" in > middle) But it is not clear to me how this should be achieve in a source package which currently build-depends on libatlas3-dev. Can the build-dependency simpy be swapped out ? If so, to what ? Or are other changes typically needed ? (Please forgive me for writing this mail without having actually looked at any affected source package.) > @Andreas, can we add this point to science-team policy? I will leave this to Andreas. But if Andreas and the science-team agree with you, then this is clearly a candidate for a lintian warning. You probably want to file a bug against lintian. Please keep up the good work. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
