[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#445230: Bug#445230: libopenmpi-dev 1.2.4-2 compiler wrappers don't work

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 October 2007 at 23:35, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Am Donnerstag, den 04.10.2007, 11:53 +0200 schrieb Manuel Prinz:
| > Am Donnerstag, den 04.10.2007, 00:58 -0700 schrieb Andreas Kabel:
| > > Compiler wrappers don't work. Required data files
| > > are not part of the package, nor are they in any
| > > package libopenmpi-dev depends on.
| > [...] I know where the error comes from and it
| > should be easy to fix. [...]
| 
| A second after touching the respective files I asked myself if it's
| worth moving files from openmpi-common into libopenmpi-dev.
| 
| Adding openmpi-common to libopenmpi-dev's Depends would do the trick.

Don't we just need openmpi-bin to have a Depends: openmpi-common ?

Oops. We already do that. Now I am confused. openmpi-bin has the binary that
failed (mpicc.openmpi), so why are we fixing libopenmpi-dev ?

| The whole package is 44k, the data that would go into libopenmpi-dev
| about 36k, shrinking openmpi-common to nothing and adding overhead to
| the libopenmpi-dev packages since they're not "Architecture: all" like
| openmpi-common.
| 
| IMHO, moving files around isn't worth it. What's your opinion on that?

I don't really care, but we should fix the bug and not kill ourselves over
granularity with packages that are so tiny.  If you see a case for
rationalising, it is probably a good idea.   Just please float it here before
you go off an committ the changes ... :)

Thanks for keeping openmpi afloat.  

Dirk

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