[Pkg-scicomp-devel] MPICH2 in Debian

[Pavan Balaji]

Muammar, Lucas, and others,

>> Muammar: since you have the priority on this, can you let us know how you
>> want to proceed?
>>
> 
> I have been working on it for some time. I started packaging it from
> the work who other did (requesting his permission of using it
> previously).
> 
> The package compiles, but it has a _bunch_ of lintian warnings. Look 
> at them:

Thanks. Some of these warnings (e.g., confdb warnings about ancient 
files) should be fixed for 1.1, which went out a few weeks ago.

> E: mpich2 source: ancient-autotools-helper-file 
> src/mpi/romio/confdb/config.sub 2003-07-17

I'm not familiar with many of the below warnings, but some of these seem 
like they don't follow the debian naming convention:

> W: libmpich2-1.0: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink 
> usr/lib/libmpich.so.1.1 usr/lib/libmpich.so

Can you or someone else make a pass on the mpich2_1.0.7-1_amd64.changes 
changes file (is there an architecture independent one?) and see if some 
of these issues can be fixed? Btw, are these files put up online 
somewhere, so I can locally try them out as well?

I noticed that lintian also requires every installed binary to have a 
man page. I'll take care of that.

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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