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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's an update on the status for getting packages ready for
inclusion in the next Ubuntu LTS release.

1. Johannes needs all releases to be ready by Monday. That will give
him a couple of days to prepare the packages.

Which releases do we want to make? There have been JIT compiler fixes
in FFC and UFL that would be good to get in, and also updates in
DOLFIN.

We have also made changes to Instant. The buildbot is failing for
Instant but I don't know why.

2. Unfortunately the DOLFIN package needs to be build without CGAL and
ParMETIS.

The reason is that both CGAL and ParMETIS are in the non-free section
of Debian. I knew from before that ParMETIS has a non-free license
(which makes an even stronger case for SCOTCH) but I don't know why
CGAL is in non-free. Anyone else knows why?

If DOLFIN is compiled against CGAL or ParMETIS then the DOLFIN package
would depend on a non-free package, which would place DOLFIN in the
contrib section, which for technical Debian reasons places DOLFIN in
the "NEW" queue, which means Johannes cannot upload but must get
someone else with higher "Debian security clearance" to upload and
that will take a while. There would also be a similar problem for the
FEniCS meta package.

So DOLFIN will be built without CGAL and ParMETIS in Ubuntu, but will
be available with these dependencies in Launchpad PPA.

We should sort out our dependencies for future releases.

--
Anders

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