[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#572229: openmpi-checkpoint should depend on blcr-util

[Alan Woodland]

2010/3/2 Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <fernandotcl at gmail.com>:
> Package: openmpi-checkpoint
> Version: 1.4.1-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> openmpi-checkpoint does not currently depend on blcr-util. However, ompi-restart will segfault unless blcr-util (upstream bug maybe, I reported to the OpenMPI users mailing list, still got no reply).

[snip]

>
> Note that brcl-util provides binaries like cr_restore, cr_checkpoint, etc. One would think ompi-checkpoint/ompi-restart uses only libcr directly, but that doesn't seem to be the case for ompi-restart.
>

I'm pretty sure it at least was the case that restart did just use
libcr directly, without calling any of the utils, hence my not setting
the dependency originally. I wonder if this is a bug or a feature now?

Alan