[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] openmpi + c++11

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 29/10/15 19:10, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2015, 16:42 +0000 schrieb Nico Schlömer:
>>
>> the OpenMPI in Debian is somewhat outdated; the current stable
>> version is 1.10.1 [1], Debian ships 1.6.5 [2]. A bug has been filed
>> for this a while ago [3].
> [..]
>> [1] http://www.open-mpi.de/software/ompi/v1.10/
>> [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/net/openmpi-bin
>> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796982
>
> Hi. I'm interested in helping to update the package (and I can sponsor
> uploads). What would be necessary to make the update from the 1.6
> series to the 1.10 series? Any important known show stoppers?
>
> Regards, Daniel
>

It is mostly the patches. Whoever is motivated would have to check 
whether they reverse-apply (and therefore can be dropped), apply 
partially or fail (which for both would require some work).

Best way to start would be to clone the upstream repository [1], 
checkout a new debian/experimental branch from v1.10, apply the current 
packaging from the Debian repository [2] and start hacking.

In the long term, it might be worth asking politely for transitioning 
the maintenance of OpenMPI over to the Debian Science Team. Just a 
suggestion.

[1] https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi-release
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/

Best regards,
Ghis