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

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Montag, den 21.07.2008, 10:27 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 21 July 2008 at 16:47, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> I would suspect that the U of Chicago bit may be in regards to other MPI work
> -- U of Chicago is the 'mother institution' of Argonne Labs here in the
> Chicago suburbs, and they co-drive MPICH2 quite a bit.  
> 
> MPICH2 has a super-liberal and suitable license [ which I got to get applied
> to the up-to-then non-free 'pgapack', also from Argonne ]  So I do not expect
> any issues there.

Didn't dive into that yet.

> As for LGPL, we can obviously fix that.

This seems to be a copy of Libltdl. I added it to debian/copyright. The
files contain the exception clause, so we could ask upstream to
re-licence it. But dunno if it's worth it. (Files located
under ./opal/libltdl/, by the way.)

> | >   * 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.)
> 
> Let's remove this.

Done.

Best regards
Manuel
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