Does this need a review?
Ed Hill
ed at eh3.com
Sat Oct 1 16:58:16 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 22:12 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I currently maintain umfpack, a library for sparse matrix computation
> that is used by Octave. The maintainer has created a new package called
> ufsparse, which is a larger collection of sparse matrix libraries
> including umfpack. My plan is to create a ufsparse package that
> obsoletes umfpack, but the spec files and licensing terms are very
> similar (though there is one library that I will not be building because
> it depends on a nonfree external library). Should I submit this for
> review, or can I just consider this a continuation of the old package?
Hi Quentin,
If it has a substantial amount of similar code and uses similar licenses
(as you describe), then I think it qualifies as a "new upstream version"
and does not need a "start-all-over-again" review.
Ed
ps - And if others disagree and argue that it warrants a review then I'd
be happy to review it.
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