Bug#613056: Please compile gmsh with support for .med files

[Anton Gladky]

Hi, all!

I have a question regarding this package.
2.5.0.dfsg-6 version has the following line in control file[1]:

libhdf5-mpi-dev[alpha amd64 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
powerpc sparc],

As I understand, libhdf5-mpi-dev should be included only on platforms,
listed above.
But builldd includes this package for all platforms, causing FTBFS on
some of them. For example, mips is not listed above, but buildd
includes libhdf5-mpi-dev for building [2]:

Get:112 http://mirror-ubc.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main
libhdf5-mpi-dev mips 1.8.4-patch1-2 [18.3 kB]

I have changed libhdf5-mpi-dev on libhdf5-openmpi-dev in build-deps [3]:

libhdf5-openmpi-dev[alpha amd64 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
powerpc sparc]

But I am afraid, that it will cause again FTBFS, because
libhdf5-openmpi-dev is not available on all platforms. Can anybody
say, what do I do wrong? Why buildd ignores platforms, like described
in Debian Policy [4]?

Thank you
Anton


[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/gmsh/tags/2.5.0.dfsg-6/control
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gmsh&arch=mips&ver=2.5.0.dfsg-6&stamp=1302030827
[3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/gmsh/trunk/debian/control
[4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html