[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#510845: mpi-defaults: FTBFS/not available on alpha

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Sonntag, den 15.03.2009, 16:14 +0100 schrieb Adeodato Simó:
> Indeed, bumping the SONAME in 1.3.1 would be great if indeed ABI
> compatibility has been broken. Thanks for pursuing this.

Upstream discusses the plans for future releases and dealing with
SONAMEs on their development list. We'll see where they end up, there is
no definite plan yet.

So, to get the issue fixed, my current plan is as follows:

1.) Fix the build issues.
2.) Fake the SONAME change by changing the library package name. [*]
3.) Patch and build all dependant software.
4.) File bugs for all packages, including patches.
5.) NMU if no response in a reasonable time frame.

I do not know if this plan is reasonable and the release-team is OK with
it. I will of course let them know about this before I take any action.
(Or is it OK to coordinate just with you?) Feedback is welcome and
appreciated, since this is the first time I need to do that.

Another option would be to upload to experimental, so the other
maintainers can test the packages theirselfs. Not sure if this is
reasonable but might result in less breakage since uploads to unstable
could be coordinated.

Best regards
Manuel

[*] The reason is that upstream does not yet know how (and if) they will
bump the SONAME, so I think it's best to stay with it as is, so
user-compiled software against 1.3 still runs.

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