[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#753001: openmpi: New upstream version 1.8 available

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 11/09/2014 10:45, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> Version 1.8.2 is out, which brings a good list of bug fixes.
>
> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/announce/2014/08/0063.php
>
Yeh, professionally, I left the scientific world for Mozilla. So, my
interest for scientific packages
decreased. Sorry about that.
> In the changelog, this line :
> - Close many memory leaks to achieve valgrind-clean operation
> suggests bug #732160 may be addressed.
>
> How large an effort would it be to update openmpi from the 1.6 to the
> 1.8 series ?
>
Usually, upstream is great to keep our work easy.
However, it is likely that this version of OpenMPI requires an SO bump
(and therefor requires
a transition).
Such transition is going to be important to be done before Jessie.
However, we could prepare everything
in experimental.
If you are interested, I would be happy to sponsor such work.

Cheers,
Sylvestre