On 11 December 2007 at 17:20, Manuel Prinz wrote: | Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2007, 10:00 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > Maybe we should release a new openmpi to fix the few trivial bugs, and maybe | > add a NEWS or README item indicating this open issue with the alternatives -- | > and how our hands are tied by update-alternatives -- to give this some more | > visibility. I think that would improve over more packages still building | > with lam 'just because they always did'. Thoughts? | | I think a new upload is definitely a good idea. I also thought of | removing all blocks from our bug first, and directly block the bug in | gromacs by dpkg. (Reassigning the blocking bug, so to say.) TTBOMK,
foo:~> dict -P- TTBOMK No definitions found for "TTBOMK" What's TTBOMK ? | in gromacs is a problem that exists because of a broken alternatives, | we're "out" of this since we fixed the bug. It not working effectively | in gromacs is a problem that exists because of a broken alternatives, | not openmpi. As far as I understand the BTS, we can't close our bug with | an upload because the dpkg need to be closed first. By unblocking first, | we circumvent that. (As said, it's not an openmpi bug per se.) All sounds good to me! | Dirk, what do you think about that? It fixes at least one of the bugs. | I'll help Nicholas with the others because I care about gromacs as well, | but that's a different story; I see no point in waiting for all RC bugs | fixed at the same time. (Meaning, I agree with you here.) | | I can write the needed mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] later, if you think that's | the way to go. But before uploading, we should make a test build again, | since I'm not sure what's the situation with the shlibs issue. Sounds good. Can you give it a spin against SVN? If all is well, I can upload this eve. I don't know how to add a NEWS file -- tried once or twice with other packages and misteriously failed. Maybe we should one, or add something to a README? Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
