Hi, IMHO there is absolutely no problem in updating the version of mpich suggested by science-nanoscale-phases. Actually, it still points to mpich because I hadn't noticed that the version had not been updated.
I'll gladly put there whichever name you choose for Mpich 3. Best regards, Yann. Le 26 mai 2013 20:24, "Torquil Macdonald Sørensen" <torq...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi! > > I am a maintainer of the "mpich2" package. My goal is to package Mpich > 3.0.4 and get someone from the Debian Science team to upload it to Sid. > Before Lucas Nussbaum stepped down as a maintainer, we decided that it > would be a good idea to change the source package name from "mpich2" to > "mpich" at the same time. > > A source package called "mpich" already exists, but the software is very > old and I don't really see the usefulness of it anymore. Perhaps I am > wrong? I contacted the maintainers of "mpich" to ask, but did not get a > response. Therefore I'm asking the Debian Science team. > > Do you guys think the old "mpich" source package can be removed from Sid > and Testing? I have checked the rdepends of all its associated binary > packages. The only instance of an non-mpich package referring to a binary > package from the "mpich" source is the package "science-nanoscale-physics", > which only suggests libmpich1.0gf. > > Mpich 3 is a much improved version of this software, so perhaps the old > mpich source package can be eliminated, so I can go ahead and work on > renaming the current mpich2 to mpich, and upgrade it to the newest upstream > Mpich version 3.0.4? > > Best regards > Torquil Sørensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-science-request@lists.**debian.org<debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**51a25357.6020...@gmail.com<http://lists.debian.org/51a25357.6020...@gmail.com> > >
