[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#545919: Bug#545919: openmpi: Please add support for BLCR

[Alan Woodland]

2009/10/13 Manuel Prinz <manuel at debian.org>:
> tag 545919 + pending
> thanks
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> thanks very much for your patch! I applied it to our SVN repository with
> minor modifications. I will upload a new package soon, but need to do
> some testing before that.
>
> Am Sonntag, den 13.09.2009, 10:59 +0100 schrieb Alan Woodland:
>> The attached patch builds an extra binary package, openmpi-checkpoint
>> on architectures which have BLCR available. (Option #3 from the
>> earlier mail). I think it all works sanely, and shouldn't introduce
>> any new problems.
>
> As said, I did some minor modifications, but nothing serious. It builds
> well and does not seem to introduce a problem from what I can see at the
> moment. So everything's great so far! :)
>
> I agree with your choice of option #3. I first had doubts about
> introducing a new package because it's really small but it seems to be
> the best solution.
>
>> Not sure if you want to recommend or suggest
>> openmpi-checkpoint though? I'd say recommend since I think checkpoints
>> would be useful for the majority of usages for openmpi, but I don't
>> feel strongly either way really.
>
> I agree with you here and left it as Recommends.
>
> Thanks again for your patch!
>
Thanks for accepting it! Please feel free to send any bug reports
relating to this my way, and I'll try to take a look. I have
subscribed to the PTS, but I'll definitely notice something forwarded
to my main mailbox :)

Alan