[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] 1.2.8 ?

Manuel Prinz debian at pinguinkiste.de
Thu Oct 23 15:00:53 UTC 2008


Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 20:25 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> So my vote is simply for building this, with or without static, but in
> due course.

Sylvestre already checked in the necessary changes but there are Lintian
warning we really should address first. I spend some time on this today
but was only able to fix two of them. (Rpath in the libraries.)

The one that bugs me most is the wrong permissions on mpi.mod. They are
reset to the right permissions on rules but end up with the wrong ones
in the package. I do not get where things do wrong. I must be missing
the obvious.

For the ldconfig lintian warning, something else must be wrong since
this is inserted by debhelper, AFAICS.

> I always think it reflects poorly on us if we are late following
> upstream releases.

I generally agree, but we are a) actually following upstream and b)
under freeze. The later may be no strong argument but because RL really
sucks ATM most of my Debian time (which is close to nothing) is spent on
relaese-related things. I also think we should upload a package that is
at least Lintian clean because it reflects poorly on us if we release
packages that are in "bad" shape. (I do not think our package is in bad
shape, we worked hard to turn it into what it is now. But we do provide
a library and should seriously test things. Even though unstable is
unstable, I prefer not to break stuff.)

> So with that I'd welcome a volunteer to step forward to build, possibly
> test and upload 1.2.8.

I can't find the solutions to the other open issues right now and will
not be able to address them before the weekend. I really whished things
were different, but they simply aren't.

Best regards
Manuel
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