3.5 years later the situation looks unchanged, please let me know if you see any reason for still keeping blcr in Debian.
Adrian On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:52:08PM +0100, Alan Woodland wrote: > On 26 September 2017 at 20:28, Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Source: blcr > > Version: 0.8.5-2.1 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: buster sid > > > > As far as I can see: > > 1. blcr is dead upstream since 2013. > > 2. blcr requires both userspace and kernel parts. > > 3. The -dkms package is removed in unstable. > > 4. The beta version in experimental has an RC bug against > > the -dkms package that the module does not build > > with the jessie (sic) kernel. > > > > mpich is linked with the userspace library, > > but does that make any sense without the kernel part? > > There was some activity in 2014 - 0.8.6 beta4, but the last I heard it > still had some issues with PPC64 that meant it wasn't worth uploading > to experimental and my plan was to hold out. Since there haven't been > any new versions released since then I'm inclined to agree. That'll > need a patch to the MPI build config though to stop linking against > and requiring the blcr userspace libraries as a precursor to actually > removing BLCR from sid. > > In theory people could still be running old kernels to keep support > alive and if that's the case then we should try to avoid breaking > things, but certainly I've not actively been using BLCR in my work for > quite some time now. > > Alan
