On 16/02/2017 21:37, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 15/02/17 16:25, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: unblock >> >> Please unblock package openmpi to fix RC bug #848574 >> >> Openmpi 2.0.2 was released just as Stretch was being frozen. The package in >> testing, >> 2.0.2~git.20161225 was packaged to get relevant (2.0.2) changes into >> Stretch, but unfortuanatelt contained >> a significant bug on mips64el release architecture that was not caught >> before transition. >> >> debdiff too large to be useful. > Yes, that's the issue: > > 4391 files changed, 1353847 insertions(+), 423120 deletions(-) ... > So perhaps you can get a filtered diff, saying what you have excluded (and > why), > and explain what changes there are in this release and why we should accept > it, > rather than a targeted fix for #848574? > > Cheers, > Emilio > I agree about the problem, the trouble is that 2.0.2~git.20161225 turns out not to be a good baseline to be working against; it should not be in testing, either 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 should be. (It was in the middle of a large change; upstream do a lot of commits ; not only were 4391 files changed between Dec and now, about the same number of commits were involved. (I had believed that 2.0.2 would include a major SOVERSION change that in the end wasn't made, and wanted to get a version with fixes but no SOVERSION change into stretch).
I had picked that git as a 'near release point', expecting it to be nearly stable. It wasn't. I have little confidence that if I cherry pick just the fix for #848574, that the resulting package would be fit for stretch. 2.0.2 on the other hand _has_ had extensive testing, (it has one of the best test infrastructures around) it just wasn't ready in time for the freeze date. The other alternative is removal, which is less desirable: $ apt-cache rdepends libopenmpi2 | wc -l 186 directly. Cheers, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry, <alast...@sceal.ie>, <mckins...@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.
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