[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [Fwd: Packages review]

[Manuel Prinz]

Hi guys,

Thijs is my AM and reviewed "my" packages. OpenMPI seems to have a
license issue we missed and should fix. I quoted the relevant parts of
his mail below and added my comments on that.

I will try to dig into it tonight but can't say if I can find the time.
Because the freeze is going to happen soon, I'd appreciate any help on
it! And please keep Thijs CC'ed so he can keep up-to-date. Thanks!

So, here we go:

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> Von: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>
> An: Manuel Prinz <debian at pinguinkiste.de>
> Betreff: Packages review
> Datum: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:27:51 +0200
> 
> Hi Manuel,
> 
> I've taken a look at the packages you maintain. [...]
> 
> openmpi
> 
>   * debian/copyright seems to miss several licences in the source
>     tarball. I for example found LGPL-licenced code and code under
>     copyright of the University of Chicago. I guess these should be
>     added to debian/copyright; this may even be an RC bug!

This is a serious issue, as mentioned above.

>   * debian/control: the XS-Autobuild flag is not needed for packages
>     in main as I understand it, since these are all autobuilt. Or is there
>     a reason for it?

This is not very serious. I read about XS-Autobuild and it seems to be
needed only for non-free packages, so we could just drop it. I'm not
sure, thought. Does anyone remember why we added this? (The only thing I
can think of at the moment is the kFreeBSD port.)

>   * In debian/libopenmpi-dev.README.Debian, it's written:
>     "Please note that there are some bugs in update-alternatives (namely
>     #220044, #388313 and #392440) that cause trouble when you install several
>     development packages of MPI implementations, i.e. LAM or MPICH."
>     Two of those bugs are already fixed, so that message could be updated
>     perhaps.

I already updated this. Changes are in our SVN repo.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards
Manuel
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