[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#563705: MPI implementations in squeeze

[Lucas Nussbaum]

> > There is not much progress so far with respect to changing mpi-defaults
> > to use MPICH2 instead of LAM on the architectures where Open MPI is not
> > available yet. This needs a round of binNMUs. Marc Brockschmidt said he
> > will look at the request to debian-release in the next few days, so this
> > might resolve soon as well.
> 
> Something to consider: this will break a lot of packages which use
> FORTRAN until 563705 is fixed, and then that will require mods to
> packages.

I understand that bug as:
if mpich2 or openmpi don't do the right thing when calling
mpif77/mpif90, then symlinks are needed.

Is there a proof that either of them doesn't do the right thing?
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to fix them to do the right thing?

(Those are honest questions -- I don't know anything about fortran)
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