[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#452047: Bug#452047: gromacs-openmpi: Package depends on lam4c2

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Manuel,

On 11 December 2007 at 15:00, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| tags 452047 + pending
| thanks
| 
| Hi Nicholas,
| 
| I added a fix in trunk a while ago which seems to work and uses
| alternatives. Nevertheless, when installing other MPI -dev packages, the
| problem is still the same due to a bug in update-alternatives. I thought
| of patching but it's not as easy as I thought in the beginning.
| 
| I'm not quite sure how to proceed though or what would be the correct
| way to handle things here. I'm not sure if it's ok to raise the
| serverity of the bugs against dpkg, so they get a little more attention.
| I'm still trying to figure that out.
| 
| Just wanted to let you know that we're working on the issue, even if it
| has remained quite silent lately.

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?

Dirk

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