On 10 May 2011 at 18:14, Nicholas Breen wrote:
| On 05/10/2011 05:23 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > Hi Nicholas,
| >
| > On 10 May 2011 at 16:37, Nicholas Breen wrote:
| > | Package: pgapack
| > | Severity: normal
| > | Tags: patch
| > | User: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org
| > | Usertags: old-mpi-eol
| > |
| > |
| > | pgapack's debian/rules currently fails if the only installed MPI 
implementation
| > | is MPICH2 (libmpich2-dev).  It's planned to make MPICH2 the default MPI
| > | implementation soon on architectures where OpenMPI is not available, at 
which
| > | point this would become a release-critical FTBFS bug.
| > |
| > | The attached patch should allow MPICH2 compilation.
| >
| > Thanks for the patch!
| >
| > Does debian/control need an update (beside the standards version), or will
| > all the magic happen via mpi-default-dev?
| 
| It looks like that should be the only necessary change, and swapping 
| mpi-default-dev will do the rest.
| 
| Just for the record, this is a transition that's been dragging on for 
| about a year and a half, so "soon" is definitely not "immediate"!

I know. I used to be open-mpi maintainer for a bit (to save Open MPI from a
very shitty state, Manuel then started to help and took over).  

Definitely a good thing. I'll push this out 'soon'.

Dirk

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