[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#457088: Bug#457088: Bug#457088: Bug#457088: mpi.h is missing

[Manuel Prinz]

Dear Sune!

Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2007, 23:43 +0100 schrieb Sune Vuorela:
> I have read the discussion in the bug report. If it is anywhere else, please 
> point to it instead of playing smart-ass.

That applies to everyone: I don't like the tone of the recent emails and
would be glad if we could all calm down and keep the discussion at a
technical level, so we can spend our time on working on Debian and not
flaming each other.

> From the fhs:
>     /usr/include : Directory for standard include files.
>     /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages
> 
> mpi.h surely only fits in first category.

mpi.h is provided in /usr/include/mpi via update-alternatives, as every
other include file needed by an MPI implementation is, so I do not see
the problem here. I don't find a reference in the policy that states
that one is not allowed to symlink to where the files reside in the
filesystem. Actually, all packages using update-alternatives I looked at
so far put their stuff in /usr/lib/package. If that's wrong, we can
correct that. But from what I saw this is common practice. mpich even
has files in /usr/lib/mpich/bin. IANADD, so I may be wrong and looked at
broken packages. Could you please give me some insight how a solution
would look like in your eyes? Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Manuel
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