Bug#714730: gfortran: binNMU is needed for all packages which contains Fortran90 .mod file when upgrading default version
Package: gfortran
Version: 4:4.8.1-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
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Dear Maintainer,
Currently, gfortran 4.7 to 4.8 transition causes many failures when
compiling user code.
When you upgrade the default gfortran version, you should ask binNMU for
all packages which contains Fortran90 .mod files.
All the time you bump up the default gfortran version,
packages which contains .mod file,
such as MPI(openmpi), HDF5, or netCDF,
needs recompilation since .mod files are incompatible between gfortran version.
This is hidden dependency, and this has been an important issue these days;
See other bug reports regarding this issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630986
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635739
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675115
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687127
Some of them are fixed by new upload by individual maintainer, and others don't.
However, I believe this incompatibiliy is not a user packager's fault.
I believe that these issue can be more easily handled by gfortran toolchain layer.
Best regards,
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Ryo IGARASHI, Ph.D.
rigarash@gmail.com
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gfortran depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.8.1-2
ii gcc 4:4.8.1-2
ii gfortran-4.8 4.8.1-5
gfortran recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gfortran suggests:
pn gfortran-doc <none>
pn gfortran-multilib <none>
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