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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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 control at b.d.o 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

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