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  • Bug#266560: Description could use some formatting

    From Enrico Zini@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 12:00:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: libsuperlu3
    Severity: wishlist

    Hello,

    thanks for packaging libsuperlu3.

    Reading the description, I realized it could use some indentation; maybe
    just skipping a line after the first paragraph would be enough for
    people to understand if they need the package or not, and then if they
    are curious they can read the rest of the explanation.

    This, for example, would be much quicker to parse, as one can take a
    break after the first paragraph to decide if (s)he wants to read
    further:

    SuperLU is a general purpose library for the direct solution of large,
    sparse, nonsymmetric systems of linear equations on high performance
    machines.

    The library is written in C and is callable from either C or Fortran.
    The library routines will perform an LU decomposition with partial
    pivoting and triangular system solves through forward and back
    substitution. The LU factorization routines can handle non-square
    matrices but the triangular solves are performed only for square
    matrices. The matrix columns may be preordered (before factorization)
    either through library or user supplied routines. This preordering for
    sparsity is completely separate from the factorization. Working
    precision iterative refinement subroutines are provided for improved
    backward stability. Routines are also provided to equilibrate the
    system, estimate the condition number, calculate the relative backward
    error, and estimate error bounds for the refined solutions.

    Please also take a moment to consider if all of that information is really required in the package description or if some of it could be just OK in
    the package README file.

    Bye,

    Enrico

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  • From Christophe Prud'homme@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 12:10:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    [ Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:33 ]
    | Package: libsuperlu3
    | Severity: wishlist
    |
    | Hello,
    |
    | thanks for packaging libsuperlu3.
    |
    | Reading the description, I realized it could use some indentation; maybe
    | just skipping a line after the first paragraph would be enough for
    | people to understand if they need the package or not, and then if they
    | are curious they can read the rest of the explanation.


    |
    | This, for example, would be much quicker to parse, as one can take a
    | break after the first paragraph to decide if (s)he wants to read
    | further:
    Thank you for the feedback, I will try to write a more comprehensive description based on your suggestions.

    Best regards
    C.
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