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

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 11/09/14 10:04, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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.

No problem, we all have lives too.

>> 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.

That is good news.

> However, it is likely that this version of OpenMPI requires an SO bump
> (and therefor requires
> a transition).

I am not surprised.

> 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.

I would be keen on giving it a go, however I am not too sure about
where to start once the latest source are imported.

FYI, I did a merge with 1.8.2 and tried a build with pbuilder, which
unsurprisingly failed.


Cheers,
Ghis