Hi,
while working on an update for math/octave from 5.2.0 to 6.4.0 I noticed
that what we package as math/arpack has been superseded by arpack-ng
packages in FreeBSD, NetBSD and pretty much every Linux distribution I
bothered to check.
I have a working port for arpack-ng
(https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng), but since it obviously
conflicts with math/arpack, I was wondering what's the best way forward.
Net* and Free* appear to have dropped their arpack ports and added
arpack-ng ports instead, which arguably would make versioning a bit
easier, given that arpack is at version 96 ...
Should I work on a patch against math/arpack or submit a new port?
Either way, this would affect
math/mlpack
math/igraph
math/armadillo
math/octave
All of which build happily against arpack-ng.
cu,
Volker
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