[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#510845: mpi-defaults: FTBFS/not available on alpha

Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Fri Mar 13 20:41:36 UTC 2009


* Manuel Prinz [Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:48:10 +0100]:

> reassign 510845 openmpi 1.2.8-3
> thanks

Hello, Manuel.

> Am Montag, den 05.01.2009, 12:05 +0100 schrieb Adeodato Simó:
> > Package: mpi-defaults
> > Version: 0.2
> > Severity: serious

> > The latest version of openmpi failed to build from source on alpha,
> > hence mpi-defaults can't be built there, because libopenmpi-dev is not
> > installabe.

> > If mpi-defaults intends to provide packages for other packages to
> > build-depend on, it should do that robustly. If you think the alpha
> > FTBFS of openmpi can be fixed soon, please reassign this bug there and
> > ask for a retry of mpi-defaults once it's available.

> Open MPI used to build fine on alpha, so this is probably a problem with
> the new upstream release. Reassigning to Open MPI maintainers.

It’s been 2 months, and this issue has not been addressed. In the
meantime, I’m starting to smell packages build-depending on mpi-default-dev
that will prevent transitions from happening.

You were right in reassigning, since openmpi should have a bug of its
own for this failure. However, mpi-defaults is buggy as well, because
it’s failing to provide packages for alpha.

I also see #517543 now. IMO, either that patch is correct and can be
applied soon, or mpi-defaults needs to start thinking about using an
alternative implementation on alpha. Thoughts?

Additionally, Manuel, what can you tell us about the openmpi FTBFS on
sparc [1]? That’s sort of important too, because the way openmpi is
packaged has rendered the old libopenmpi-dev uninstallable on sparc.

Many thanks in advance,

  [1]: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=openmpi&arch=sparc&ver=1.3-2&stamp=1236974238&file=log&as=raw

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