On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 16:46:12 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Julien, > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:07:25PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 22:27:53 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > > > > pbs-drmaa as reverse dependency of torque is easy as it is a leaf > > > package. The more complicated one would be openmpi which would need to > > > drop the build dependency on libtorque2-dev. The reason for this > > > dependency was in https://bugs.debian.org/592887 , which needs to be > > > dropped again. > > > > > There's two solutions here. One is to drop torque support from openmpi; > > the other is to keep the torque source package but only build the > > libtorque library, as I'm assuming the security issues are on the torque > > server side. Though that's only useful is that library can still talk > > to newer torque version. > > Given Dominique's reply on #767411, from my POV I think the best > solution would be to remove torque completely for jessie (i.e. first > drop support from openmpi to be able to remove the package and > remaining reverse dependencies). > I don't know how much of that reply applies to the library...
Cheers, Julien
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