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Please remove blcr from Debian. I do not think that there are users left at
this point and nobody reacted to Adrian's request.
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:48:15 +0200 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote:
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
