[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#534740: Bug#534740: update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be master

[Manuel Prinz]

Hi Craig!

Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 17:24 +1000 schrieb Craig Sanders:
> this seems to be a recurring problem.

Unfortunately, it is. I'm going to address this when the Open MPI
transition is finished. We decided to wait for 1.3.2 to migrate to
testing before we do more bug hunting to not affect the rebuilds.

I'm also not quite sure if we can solve the problem alone. We probably
have to change all MPI packages. IMHO using the alternatives system for
MPI implementations is wrong in many aspects but were introduced long
before my time in Debian. Fixing this appropriately will take some time
but I hope to have it done until the release of Squeeze.

Best regards
Manuel