[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Too-generic SONAME for OpenMPI?

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 13:02 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: 
> Renaming is tricky. I much like my Debian environment to be just like
> upstream or other distro -- otherwise you end up having to branch segments in
> Makefiles where you use code across platforms/distros etc which is a
> pain. Principle of least surprise and all that.

Full ACK. This should be an upstream change.

> So if the linker plays tricks with us, then maybe we should just warn in
> postinst or something.  Otehrwise, playing nice with LAM is (IMHO) a
> non-issue os this project will eventually replace LAM everywhere.

Hope so. Besides the recent NMU to experimental, there wasn't an upload
in two years, to I'd call it unmaintained. The last upstream version was
released ago and as the webpage [1] states, one should switch to
OpenMPI. Maybe we should work out a plan to get all remaining packages
depending on LAM to work with OpenMPI and later get LAM removed. I
currently have no idea how much work that will be, actually. Of course,
the LAM maintainer should be contacted first, if we decide to go that
way. (Which I think is reasonable.)

Best regards
Manuel

 1. http://www.lam-mpi.org/

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