Re: Does this need a review?

[Ed Hill <ed eh3 com>]

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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