[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#489173: Bug severity and MIPS patch

[Manuel Prinz]

# downgrading severity, explanation below
severity 489173 wishlist
thanks

Hi Peter,

I downgraded the severity because Open MPI was never build on MIPS. I do
not totally object to "important" severity, since I think the issue is
important. But since Open MPI was never available for MIPS, there is no
breakage for MIPS users or anyone else, so the description of
"important" does not seem applicable to me. Please do not assume that
wishlist bugs get less love from us than others; this issue just needs
more time since our team lacks access to MIPS machines and knowledge of
MIPS assembler.

The patch was never applied to any Open MPI Debian package so far since
it still has issues with libtool. Applying it currently breaks the build
system for all packages, so this was never an option. Consider the patch
as a "work in progress" patch. It's not applicable for Debian at the
moment.

Best regards
Manuel
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