[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#767411: torque: should not be released with jessie

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Nov  1, 2014 at 16:46:12 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

> Hi Julien,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:07:25PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 22:27:53 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > 
> > > pbs-drmaa as reverse dependency of torque is easy as it is a leaf
> > > package. The more complicated one would be openmpi which would need to
> > > drop the build dependency on libtorque2-dev. The reason for this
> > > dependency was in https://bugs.debian.org/592887 , which needs to be
> > > dropped again.
> > > 
> > There's two solutions here.  One is to drop torque support from openmpi;
> > the other is to keep the torque source package but only build the
> > libtorque library, as I'm assuming the security issues are on the torque
> > server side.  Though that's only useful is that library can still talk
> > to newer torque version.
> 
> Given Dominique's reply on #767411, from my POV I think the best
> solution would be to remove torque completely for jessie (i.e. first
> drop support from openmpi to be able to remove the package and
> remaining reverse dependencies).
> 
I don't know how much of that reply applies to the library...

Cheers,
Julien
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