[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#836917: transition: openmpi

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/09/2016 11:25 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 01:07 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> I've done a round of rebuilds to assess the impact of this transition.
>> The results are summarized below. Several package suffer from
>> uninstallable build dependencies by having libopenmpi1.10 pulled in by
>> dependencies that failed to rebuild.
> 
> Quite a few packages require vtk6 to be rebuilt before their
> dependencies can be satisfied.
> 
> Unfortunately vtk6 has a large dependency chain, which is prone to issues.
> 
> mpi4py is one of the vtk6 build dependencies that needs to be fixed
> (#830440).
> 
> Another is the recent update of superlu in unstable which has made the
> armadillo packages and their reverse dependencies uninstallable
> (#837152). This includes gdal and by extension vtk6.
> 
> It looks like armadillo will require a transition before it will support
> superlu >= 5.2.

To deal with the armadillo/superlu situation, I've disabled armadillo
support in gdal and will upload a new revision with that change after
2.1.1+dfsg-4 migrates to testing. This assumes that armadillo won't be
fixed in unstable soon.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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