Adding openmpi-bin to mpi-default-dev
Hi,
In recent releases, openmpi and mpich have been reorganised so that
libopenmpi3 / libopenmmpi-dev are multi-arch enabled.
They are M-A: same, allowing the cross-building (and use of pkg-config).
However, mpicc/ mpifort and friends hence could
not fit into this framework, and so they have been moved from
libopenmpi-dev to openmpi-bin.
(Similarly, mpicc is in the binary package mpich).
Currently libopenmpi-dev depends on openmpi-bin, in order to ensure that
mpicc, etc. are present when users expect.
This is bad (a M-A: foreign package depending on a non-MA package).
So I propose that mpi-defaults-dev depend on openmpi-bin as well as
libopenmpi-dev (on relevant archs) and similarly for mpich.
Are there any objections / better solutions ?
Best regards
Alastair
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