[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Open MPI 1.3 transition

[Manuel Prinz]

Dear release team!

It's been almost 6 weeks now since my initial request without any reply
besides "please wait". I assume this just got lost/forgotten, but I
really need to have an answer whether I can upload or not. Open MPI is
not listed in the "Unstarted transition" section on [1], so I guess you
did not consider it yet. The version I uploaded to experimental fixes
the worst bugs, works great and even fixes a silent data corruption bug
that effects quite a lot of users. The latest series of rebuilds I did
did not show any FTBFS errors or other breakage. So I do not really see
why scheduling rebuilds should be a problem.

If I do not get an answer until next Wednesday, I just assume it is OK
to upload and will do so. But I'd really prefer to avoid this "break
unstable, then binNMU" solution. I also do not want to put pressure on
you; I know you have a hard job and appreciate your work! But
uncertainty about the status quo is quite hard to deal with and I'd like
to give asking users a "real" answer at least.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Manuel

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/transitions/summary.html