ARPACK - Change of upstream

[José Matos]

On 12/11/2011 06:46 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> ARPACK used to be a project at Rice University [1], but they abandoned
> it many years ago. After that many projects (e.g. Octave and Scilab)
> started bundling their own patched versions of the software to fix the
> bugs they had found in the package. The Fedora and Debian packages had
> their own patches as well.
>
> Recently, a collaboration has picked up the pieces and started
> maintaining a new fork of ARPACK [2].
>
> Can I just change the arpack package to use the new tarballs, or does
> using them require a re-review of the software?
>
> [1] http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/
> [2] http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/

What is the prospect of adoption from those packages that use arpack?

If the new package becomes the de-facto upstream for arpack I would say
that it does not need a new review it is just the upstream url source
that has changed.

Regards,

-- 
José Matos