[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] 1.2.8 ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 October 2008 at 12:13, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Am Dienstag, den 21.10.2008, 21:02 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > So what shall we do?  Release 1.2.8 as is without static libs?  Release with
| > the first cut of shared and static?
| 
| I'll try Sylvestre's patch today. Unfortunately I did not manage to do
| that earlier. I guess we can go for 1.2.8 directly, meaning we should
| build 1.2.8 both static and shared.
| 
| If we want to go for a freeze exception, building static libs in 1.2.8
| is IMHO not going to help us. The only reason for a freeze exception
| would be a "prettier" version number. As I understood upstream, the RC
| and 1.2.8 are essentially the same. If there are no fixes for severe
| issues, IMHO releasing with the RC is fine.
| 
| Anyway, I do not think a freeze exception is necessary, and by that we
| can upload 1.2.8 with static and shared libs to unstable. If things stay
| in unstable anyway, we can modify whatever we want, right? ;)

It's new software anyway, so I don't see how we a) would argue for a freeze
exception and b) why we'd want one.  As I see it, our existing bugs aren't
really helped by the new release per se.  So my vote is simply for building
this, with or without static, but in due course.  I always think it reflects
poorly on us if we are late following upstream releases.  

So with that I'd welcome a volunteer to step forward to build, possibly
test and upload 1.2.8.

Cheers, Dirk

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