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Review: petsc 3.25.0+dfsg1-1~exp2

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DescriptionVirtual package depending on latest PETSc development package

PETSc is the "Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation", a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. Several sample scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the features of the PETSc libraries.

This metapackage installs libpetsc-real-dev, which will always depend on the most recent version of PETSc with real number support. So if you install it then you will get upgrades automatically.

MaintainerDebian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed ByFrancesco Ballarin <ballarin@debian.org>
Sponsorballarin@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany all
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/petsc.git (browse)
Popcon Installs1209
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/petsc
Uploaded2 hours ago

New Package Report

.changes
Sourcepetsc
Version3.25.0+dfsg1-1~exp2
Changed-ByFrancesco Ballarin
Architectureall amd64 source
Distributionexperimental
DateTue, 28 Apr 2026 15:22:35 +0000
Changelog
petsc (3.25.0+dfsg1-1~exp2) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Drop link to 2026 meeting to avoid privacy breach warnings
   * Extend script-not-executable lintian override for libpetsc3.25-dev-examples
     to include new shell script related to tests.
     - Drop former matches to
       usr/share/petsc/*/share/petsc/examples/src/*/tests/scripts/*
       since there seem to be no matches in this version, possibly
       due to upstream having reorganized the scripts.
   * Add image-file-has-unexpected-name override to libpetsc3.25-dev-examples,
     to avoid false positives for .c files that lintian incorrectly thinks are
     image files.
   * Use explicitly set -e in prerm and postinst scripts to avoid lintian
     pedantic message maintainer-script-without-set-e.
   * Update lintian tags
     ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib > lacks-versioned-link-to-shared-library
     breakout-link > ldconfig-escape
     in overrides.
   * Add lintian overrides for false positive on repeated-path-segment, which
     happens because of how the directories are organized upstream.
   * Override dh_strip by passing --no-automatic-dbgsym. There is no point in
     generating the dbsym packages, since they are basically empty currently.
     The actual debug packages have dbg suffix.
   * Silence package-has-unnecessary-activation-of-ldconfig-trigger because
     the -dbg packages contain a separate installation of PETSc, which has been
     rebuilt with debug symbols enabled
   * Update d/copyright with several new files.
   * Strip trailing whitespaces from d/changelog and d/rules
   * Drop redundant Priority field from d/control
   * Add debian/upstream/metadata
   * Also clean core.* files that may get produced when running tests
.dsc
Componentmain
Package-Listlibpetsc-complex-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc-complex3.25 deb libs optional arch=any
libpetsc-complex3.25-dbg deb debug optional arch=any
libpetsc-complex3.25-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libpetsc-real-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc-real3.25 deb libs optional arch=any
libpetsc-real3.25-dbg deb debug optional arch=any
libpetsc-real3.25-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libpetsc3.25-dev-common deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc3.25-dev-examples deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc64-complex-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc64-complex3.25 deb libs optional arch=any
libpetsc64-complex3.25-dbg deb debug optional arch=any
libpetsc64-complex3.25-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libpetsc64-real-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpetsc64-real3.25 deb libs optional arch=any
libpetsc64-real3.25-dbg deb debug optional arch=any
libpetsc64-real3.25-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
petsc-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
petsc3.25-doc deb doc optional arch=all
petsc64-dev deb libdevel optional arch=all
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: PETSc
Source: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/
Files-Excluded: src/binding/petsc4py docs/petsc4py
    lib/petsc/bin/win32fe/*
    src/ts/tutorials/power_grid/PDF_eqs_power_grid.pdf

Files: *
Copyright: (c) 1991-2014, UChicago Argonne, LLC and the PETSc Development Team
License: BSD-2-clause
Disclaimer:
 This license DOES NOT apply to any software that may be obtained via the
 --download-package option of the PETSc configuration. Each of those
 packages are covered by their own licenses.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2000-2026 Adam C. Powell IV, Drew Parsons, Francesco Ballarin
License: BSD-2-clause

Files: share/petsc/matlab/laplacian*
Copyright: 2011, Bryan C. Smith and Andrew V. Knyazev
License: BSD-2-clause

Files: src/benchmarks/streams/*
Copyright: 1991-2005 John D. McCalpin, Joe R. Zagar
License: STREAM

Files: src/sys/totalview/*
Copyright: 2010, Rogue Wave Software, Inc.
License: Expat

Files: include/petsc/private/khash/khash.h
Copyright: 2008, 2009, 2011 by Attractive Chaos <attractor@live.co.uk>
License: MIT

Files: src/ksp/ksp/tests/ex63.cxx
Copyright: 2011 Sandia Corporation,
 Michael A. Heroux (maherou@sandia.gov)
License: BSD-3-clause
Comment:
 Amesos2: Templated Direct Sparse Solver Package
 .
 Under terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000, there is a non-exclusive
 license for use of this work by or on behalf of the U.S. Government.

Files:
 include/petsc/private/valgrind/memcheck.h
 include/petsc/private/valgrind/valgrind.h
Copyright: 2000-2012, Julian Seward
License: GPL-2.0+

Files:
 src/benchmarks/ssget
Copyright:
 2017-2018 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
 2017-2018 Universitat Jaume I
 2017-2018 University of Tennessee
License: BSD-3-clause

Files:
 src/mat/tests/cJSON.c
 src/mat/tests/cJSON.h
Copyright:
 2009-2017 Dave Gamble and cJSON contributors
License: Expat

Files: src/sys/perfstubs/*
Copyright:
 2019-2020 University of Oregon
License: BSD-3-clause

Files: src/sys/yaml/*
Copyright:
 2017-2020 Ingy döt Net
 2006-2016 Kirill Simonov
License: Expat

Files: docs/_static/styles/pydata-sphinx-theme.*
Copyright: 2011-2024 The Bootstrap Authors
                2024 Fonticons, Inc.
                2018 pandas
License: Expat and BSD-3-clause

Files:
 docs/_static/scripts/bootstrap.*
 docs/_static/styles/bootstrap.*
Copyright:
  2011-2025 Twitter, Inc <https://twitter.com>
  2011-2025 Bootstrap Authors <https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/graphs/contributors>
License: Expat

Files:
 docs/_static/vendor/fontawesome/*/webfonts/*
Copyright:
  2012-2018, Dave Gandy <drgandy@alum.mit.edu>
License: OFL-1.1
Comment:
 Upstream doesn't specify which version of OFL
 instead simply links to OFL page.
 Hence latest version of OFL is considered.

Files:
 docs/_static/vendor/fontawesome/*/css/*
 docs/_static/vendor/fontawesome/*/js/*
Copyright:
  2012-2018, Dave Gandy <drgandy@alum.mit.edu>
License: Expat

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Review Information

rejected — allocated to mechtilde 1 hour ago, started 1 hour ago, completed 0 hours ago.

Final Comment

Hi,
there are some authors missing in d/copyright.

Please fix also the licenses of

include/petsc/private/valgrind/memcheck.h
include/petsc/private/valgrind/valgrind.h

as described in the public notes

Public Notes

0 hours ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check
Exit code: 0

Using active review (from current.json): petsc
Author check: petsc 3.25.0+dfsg1-1~exp2

Scanned 22973 files.
Authors declared in debian/copyright: 21

NOT IN debian/copyright (5):

  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
    config/BuildSystem/config/packages/HIP.py:2
    docs/include/petscsys.h.html:16
    docs/include/petscsystypes.h.html:13
    docs/src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/mpihipsparse/mpiaijhipsparse.hip.cxx.html:13
    docs/src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/mpihipsparse/mpihipsparsematimpl.h.html:13
    ... and 26 more files

  Andre Vehreschild, Institute for Scientific Computing
    src/tao/leastsquares/tutorials/matlab/more_wild_probs/g_dfovec_1d.m:3

  Johannes Willkomm, Institute for Scientific Computing
    src/tao/leastsquares/tutorials/matlab/more_wild_probs/g_dfovec_1d.m:2

  Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC</font>
    docs/src/ksp/ksp/tests/raja/ex1.raja.cxx.html:13
    docs/src/ksp/ksp/tests/raja/memoryManager.hpp.html:13
    src/ksp/ksp/tests/raja/ex1.raja.cxx:2
    src/ksp/ksp/tests/raja/memoryManager.hpp:2

  Siemens PS      1
    share/petsc/datafiles/meshes/nozzle.igs:1

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 5 authors not in debian/copyright
0 hours ago ● public

Licenserecon

Command: lrc | grep -v 'Superfluous file pattern'
Exit code: 0

de: Versions: licenserecon '14.0'  licensecheck '3.3.9-1'

Quellbaum analysieren  ....
Lesen d/copyright  ....
Wird ausgeführt licensecheck ....

d/copyright      | licensecheck

BSD-2-clause     | Expat             docs/_sources/changes/319.md.txt
BSD-2-clause     | OFL-1.1           docs/_static/vendor/fontawesome/6.5.1/LICENSE.txt
GPL-2+           | BSD-3-clause      include/petsc/private/valgrind/memcheck.h
GPL-2+           | BSD-3-clause      include/petsc/private/valgrind/valgrind.h

The two files above are under BSD-3 clause as it is describe in the files.
This is important because otherwise the whole programm will be relicensed und GPL-2+.

BSD-2-clause     | Expat             share/petsc/saws/js/SAWs.js

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