[petsc-dev] need metis/parmetis upgrade

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Upstream released parmetis-4.0.3 and metis-5.1.0 this spring, without
> applying the patches to fix critical bugs like this:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis/commits/1c1a9fd0f408dc4d42c57f5c3ee6ace411eb222b
> 
> However, we should still upgrade our versions of the packages.  Satish,
> would you like me to convert the metis repository and upload it?

I guess you could convert all externalpackage repos to git.

Satish