[petsc-dev] Fix VecScatterDestroy() and issue with VecScatterCreateEmpty()

[Satish Balay]

testing origin/dalcinl/fix-scatter-destroy and origin/dalcinl/fix-vecscatter-initpkg in next-tmp

And will merge to master after that.

I don't think we are ready for a relase today

Satish

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> While updating petsc4py for the VecScatter changes, I found two issues:
> 
> 1) VecScatterDestroy needs a couple fixes:
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-requests/919/fix-vecscatterdestroy/diff
> Satish, this PR should be safe to go to master ASAP before release.
> 
> 2) We have VecScatterCreateEmpty(). This one does not set a type on
> the scatter context. Then, VecScatterCopy() fails afterwards. As
> VecScatterCreateEmpty() is not used AT ALL anywhere else int the
> codebase (not even in tests), I'm not sure what to do with it. In the
> mean time, I'm just removing the test I just wrote in petsc4py.
> 
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