Hi Gilles, On 10.02.2015 20:30, Gilles Filippini wrote: > Hi Axel, > > Axel Huebl a écrit le 10/02/2015 13:55 : >> Package: libhdf5-serial-dev >> Version: all >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: newcomer >> >> Dear Debian HDF5 Maintainers, >> >> >> I realized a long-standing problem with the different package versions >> of hdf5 where I would like to propose a redesign of the dependencies for. >> >> Basically, hdf5 compiled with --enable-parallel enables an *additional* >> API for parallel reads&writes but at the same time *still provides* the >> standard, serial API. >> >> Still, most of the packages in Debian that depend on hdf5 are compiled >> against >> libhdf5-serial(-dev) >> >> even if they would work perfectly fine when linked against the parallel >> version (they would still only use the serial API). >> >> That causes a user/developer that wants to use mpi parallel versions to >> force-de-install packages and tools such as >> - hdf5view >> - hdf5-tools >> - h5py (btw: they also have a parallel API) >> - ... > > This is not true anymore since release 1.8.13+docs-1 of the package: all > flavors of the library (serial, openmpi, mpich) are now co-installable. > >> >> Since the parallel API plainly expands the serial version and both >> library versions should even be fully ABI compatible, I therefore suggest: >> >> Let us list the packages >> - libhdf5-mpi/mpich/openmpi >> >> as "Enhances" the serial versions of the packages. >> >> Do you have any comments on that? > > I don't think this would be useful now that serial and parallel > libraries are co-installable. > > Thanks, > > _g. >
oh! I must have missed that recent change. That is great, indeed! Axel
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