[Pkg-scicomp-devel] MPICH2 in Debian

[Pavan Balaji]

These emails seem to have been broken across two email chains; merging 
them here.

Lucas: thanks for offering to help. I don't have a preference with who 
packages MPICH2. Either you or Muammar, or if needed I can package it 
(though I might need some help if I'm doing it). Also, if either one of 
you wants to do it, I can help with source code issues and even absorb 
patches upstream for the upcoming 1.1.1 release, so the build goes 
through cleanly.

Muammar: since you have the priority on this, can you let us know how 
you want to proceed?

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

On 06/16/2009 12:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 15/06/09 at 16:32 -0500, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm one of the developers of MPICH at Argonne National Laboratory. As  
>> some of you might be aware, our current focus is mainly on the second  
>> generation of MPICH, i.e., MPICH2. I noticed that currently Debian only  
>> contains MPICH-1. So, we'd like to work closely with you guys to get  
>> MPICH2 packaged into Debian as well. Would someone be able to help us  
>> with this? I have contacted the package maintainer for MPICH-1, as well,  
>> to find out what we need to do for this.
> 
> Hi Pavan,
> 
> I'm willing to help with that. How would you like to proceed? Do you
> want to maintain the package yourself, and only need a sponsor or backup
> maintainer, or do you want me to maintain the package and refer to you
> for issues?
> 
> Also, there was an ITP (Intent to Package) bug opened about mpich2
> (http://bugs.debian.org/420638) a long time ago. I'm Ccing the bug and
> the submitter, since he might want to step in, and technically has
> priority over packaging mpich2.

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji