Here's a patch (generated with debdiff) that fixes the issue and a similar one with the -mpd version of mpich, as well as a couple of lintian warnings.
I can make an upload if this is ok with you. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Informatique scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/changelog mpich-1.2.7/debian/changelog
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/changelog
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+mpich (1.2.7-8.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * NMU
+ * Fix update-alternative settings for libmpich-mpd1.0-dev and
+ libmpich-shmem1.0-dev (closes: #512426)
+ * fix lintian warning about maintainer scripts ignoring errors
+
+ -- Alexandre Fayolle <afayo...@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:58:11 +0100
+
mpich (1.2.7-8) unstable; urgency=low
* libmpich1.0-dev conflicts with older mpich-bin because of (formerly
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.prerm.in mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.prerm.in
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.prerm.in
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.prerm.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
if [ $1 != "upgrade" ] ; then
update-alternatives --remove mpi /usr/lib/#MPICH#/include
fi;
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.postinst.in mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.postinst.in
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.postinst.in
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/libmpich1.0-dev.postinst.in
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
update-alternatives \
--install /usr/include/mpi mpi /usr/lib/#MPICH#/include 10 \
- --slave /usr/lib/libmpi.a libmpi.a /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/libmpich.a \
- --slave /usr/lib/libmpi.so libmpi.so /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/shared/libmpich.so \
- --slave /usr/lib/libmpi++.a libmpi++.a /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/libpmpich++.a \
- --slave /usr/lib/libmpi++.so libmpi++.so /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/shared/libpmpich++.so \
+ --slave /usr/lib/libmpi.a libmpi.a /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/lib#MPICH#.a \
+ --slave /usr/lib/libmpi.so libmpi.so /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/shared/lib#MPICH#.so \
+ --slave /usr/lib/libmpi++.a libmpi++.a /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/libp#MPICH#++.a \
+ --slave /usr/lib/libmpi++.so libmpi++.so /usr/lib/#MPICH#/lib/shared/libp#MPICH#++.so \
--slave /usr/bin/mpicc mpicc /usr/bin/mpicc.#MPICH# \
--slave /usr/bin/mpiCC mpiCC /usr/bin/mpiCC.#MPICH# \
--slave /usr/bin/mpicxx mpicxx /usr/bin/mpicxx.#MPICH# \
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpi-doc.prerm mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpi-doc.prerm
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpi-doc.prerm
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpi-doc.prerm
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
if [ $1 != "upgrade" ] ; then
update-alternatives --remove MPI_Comm_set_name.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/MPI_Comm_set_name_mpi-doc.3.gz
fi;
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/rules mpich-1.2.7/debian/rules
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/rules
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/rules
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
sed 's/#MPICH#/'$$INST'/g' < debian/libmpich1.0-dev.$$FILES.in >debian/lib"$$INST"1.0-dev.$$FILES;\
done;\
done;\
+ sed -i 's/\(.*lib.*\)mpich-mpd\([^/]\)/\1mpich-p4mpd\2/' debian/libmpich-mpd1.0-dev.postinst;\
)
echo usr/lib/mpich-mpd/bin/mpichboot usr/bin/mpichboot >> debian/mpich-mpd-bin.links
echo usr/lib/mpich-mpd/bin/mpichstop usr/bin/mpichstop >> debian/mpich-mpd-bin.links
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.preinst.in mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.preinst.in
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.preinst.in
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.preinst.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
case "$1" in
upgrade)
diff -u mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.prerm.in mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.prerm.in
--- mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.prerm.in
+++ mpich-1.2.7/debian/mpich-bin.prerm.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
if [ $1 != "upgrade" ] ; then
update-alternatives --remove mpirun /usr/bin/mpirun.#MPICH#
fi;
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