[Bug 566964] New: SPOOLES library

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Summary: SPOOLES library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566964

           Summary: SPOOLES library
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: manfred at colorfullife.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


spooles is a library for working with sparse matrices.
It is not yet supported by Fedora.

Link to .srpm:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/fedora/libspooles-2.2-1.fc12.src.rpm/download

Details on the base package:
- http://www.netlib.org/linalg/spooles/spooles.2.2.html
- the spooles library is in the public domain.
- one IO file [Utilities/src/iohb.c] uses a BSD license. It probably could be
removed.
- it works on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. The debug printf's might be broken
on 64-bit archs
- there are serial, parallel [pthread] and MPI functions.


Details on the .rpm:
- two rpms: libspooles and libspooles-devel
- header files are copied into /usr/include/spooles/
The same path is used by debian.
- the serial and parallel version are built as a shared library
(/usr/lib/libspooles.so)
- MPI is not included.
As far as I understand the packaging guidelines
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MPI), MPI libraries should be
separate rpms and should be provided for all supported MPI implementations.
This is a binary incompatibility to the debian .deb file: debian builds one big
.so file with serial, parallel and mpi.
- the documentation [provided as .tex files, fixes necessary - at least psfig
must be replaced] is not built.
- the license is set to BSD as the most restrictive license.

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