On 26 September 2017 at 20:28, Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > Source: blcr > Version: 0.8.5-2.1 > Severity: serious > Tags: buster sid > > As far as I can see: > 1. blcr is dead upstream since 2013. > 2. blcr requires both userspace and kernel parts. > 3. The -dkms package is removed in unstable. > 4. The beta version in experimental has an RC bug against > the -dkms package that the module does not build > with the jessie (sic) kernel. > > mpich is linked with the userspace library, > but does that make any sense without the kernel part?
There was some activity in 2014 - 0.8.6 beta4, but the last I heard it still had some issues with PPC64 that meant it wasn't worth uploading to experimental and my plan was to hold out. Since there haven't been any new versions released since then I'm inclined to agree. That'll need a patch to the MPI build config though to stop linking against and requiring the blcr userspace libraries as a precursor to actually removing BLCR from sid. In theory people could still be running old kernels to keep support alive and if that's the case then we should try to avoid breaking things, but certainly I've not actively been using BLCR in my work for quite some time now. Alan
