Bug#1141559: transition: hypre

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 06/07/2026 10:30, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> Control: affects -1 + src:hypre
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Loss of functionality in autoconf package builds means debian can no
> longer easily build MPI packages via autoconf.
> Apparently debhelper 13.32 is to blame, cf. Bug#1139889.
> 
> In the case of hypre the simplest workaround is to abandon autoconf
> and start using cmake. hypre's cmake configuration uses a particular
> idiosyncratic formula to set the SONAME ABI, which wasn't used with
> autoconf. So we need this transition to switch over to the cmake soname.
> 
> The code is the same and the file layout is the same (a new cmake
> config becomes available, but we didn't have it before).
> So dependent packages can build the same way as before. The only
> difference is the change in the value of the soname.
> 
> petsc would be removed with hypre removal (RC Bug#1139536),
> and removal of petsc4py might impact the python transition,
> removing a bundle of other dependent python packages.
> For that reason it might be prudent to give this transition priority,
> to help the python transition proceed smoothly at the level of the
> numerical (finite element) python packages.
> 
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-hypre.html

Go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio