Source: hdf5 Version: 1.8.4-5 Severity: important User: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org Usertags: old-mpi-eol
Dear maintainer, hdf5 build-depends on LAM/MPI and/or MPICH which are not developed upstream anymore. There were several discussions on the Debian Science mailing list to EOL both LAM/MPI and MPICH, the latest discussion happening at [1]. Please help us with this goal by dropping the build-dependency on lam-dev and/or libmpich1.0-dev. You currently have two possibilities to build MPI-enabled packages: 1. You can build-depend on mpi-default-dev to build a single MPI-enabled package that uses Debian's default MPI implementation. The resulting package should use the "-mpi" suffix. This allows easy transistions to other MPI implementations in case it's needed. This solution is easy to maintain but does not allow your users to choose a different implementation than the default. 2. You can build packages against all currently supported MPI implementations in Debian, which are Open MPI (openmpi) and MPICH2 (mpich2). You have to change your build scripts to build against both implementations. There is no automatic way to do this at the moment. The resulting packages should use the "-openmpi" and "-mpich2" suffixes. This solution is harder to maintain but supports all MPI implementation, so your users can choose. You're free to choose which of the solutions you'd like to implement. If there are any questions, feel free to write to the Debian Science Maintainers mailing list [2]. Your package is special in this transition as it has reverse depends that might break due to the changes. The following source packages are affected: - minc - octave3.0 - octave3.2 If you file bugs against these packages, please use the BTS usertag for this transition and keep [2] (or me) in the loop. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Manuel -- [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/11/msg00010.html [2] debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel