Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear release team, as requested by Marc Brockschmidt in <87ocj81kt4....@solon.marcbrockschmidt.de>, I file this bug for the mpi-defaults transition. As discussed on the Debian Science list, we'd like to get rid of two old MPI implementations, MPICH (mpich) and LAM/MPI (lam4). Both are not maintained upstream anymore and have successors already in the archive, MPICH2 (mpich2) and Open MPI (openmpi), respectively. The current plan is to EOL MPICH and LAM by removing all reverse dependencies on those packages. One big step in this direction would be via mpi-defaults. The current version depends on LAM/MPI for arches where Open MPI is not supported (yet). A package is prepared that will depend on MPICH2 on these arches. After uploading that, binNMUs are needed for the depending packages. This transition will interfere with the hdf5 transition, as hdf5 does build MPI-enabled versions. Bugs have been filed for the remaining packages that do not use mpi-defaults but depend on an MPI implementation directly. The can be tracked via [1]. They need to be fixed by sourceful uploads, I only mention them for reference. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the Debian Science mailing list. And sorry for bringing it up so late in the release cycle! Best regards, Manuel [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=old-mpi-eol;users=debian-scie...@lists.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org