On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 20:16 -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote: > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> blacs-mpi and scalapack have been in transition for over four months. > >> AFAICT, it's because of old binary packages in testing linked to mpich > >> and lam getting in the way. (The new packages use mpi-defaults.) > >> > >> Would it be possible to remove those binaries and hint blacs-mpi and > >> scalapack into testing? > > > > There is an uninstallable binary package which prevents them from > > migrating (reported as bug #549707). Luk, thanks for pointing out this bug which was recently filed. I had not seen it, and was unaware of this issue blocking blacs-mpi and scalapack from entering testing. I'm closing my bug against release.debian.org . > I have uploaded a revision of scalapack in mentors.d.n: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scalapack/ > > If I understood #549707 correctly scalapack-pvm-test depends on > scalapack1-pvm, but libscalapack-pvm1 is shipped instead and that's > the problem. So, what I did was to update the debian/shlibs.local > file to make scalapack-pvm-test depends on the correct binary. Please, > correct me if I am wrong with this. Muammar, there is still a problem with shlibs.local, which is that it refers to non-existent packages libscalapack-mpich1 and libscalapack-lam1 . I think you switched the shlib package name from libscalapack-mpi1 to libscalapack-openmpi1 to avoid a lintian warning. But the problem is that on architectures where OpenMPI is not available, the shlib soname is libscalapack-lam.so.1 which seems even more inappropriate for a package called libscalapack-openmpi1 . That's why I created the package names libscalapack-mpi1 and libscalapack-mpi-dev . If in spite of this you would like to keep the package name as libscalapack-openmpi1 I will respect your wishes as the maintainer. But shlibs.local needs to be modified so all of the shlib package names are the same (libscalapack-openmpi1) before the package can be uploaded. Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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