[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Open MPI 1.3

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 December 2008 at 13:29, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| with the release of 1.3 coming up, I'd like to address a concern I have:
| I'm not sure whether 1.3 will contain soname changes in the library, so
| we should take extra care with the new release. Currently, I'm trying to
| add shlibdeps support to our package but need a little more time with
| that. I guess it will help us in noticing when MPI gets incompatible
| with previous versions and we need soname bumping. Unfortunately, I
| probably will not finish this in time before the 1.3 release. (But I
| try.)

Yes, we should probably test, and then see what to do _if_ they are in fact
incompatible. 
 
| So, what should we do? I'd prefer to add shlibdeps support first and
| then update which may mean that we'll get some days behind upstream.
| Since we're under a freeze, I do not see too much of a problem with
| that. The alternative is to just package it; though I'm unsure if we
| might break stuff in unstable, then. Any opinions?

Well unstable is for breaking things and we are not forced to keep

     libopebmpi1.2   as well
     libopenmpi

If it is incompatible, we can declare a conflict on the previous version and
file bugs on all dependents, no?

Dirk

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