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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
