On Thu, 20 May 2010 00:09:17 -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > 2010/5/19 Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>: > > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 13:24 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 20:16 -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > >> > 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 . > > > > It's been another four months since an upload which fixed this problem. > > There are no open bugs against blacs-mpi, scalapack, or mumps. > > > > Any ideas on why they're still not transitioning? Is there an old > > binary package blocking migration? > > > > Regarding, scalapack and blacs-pvm, I did other uploads where I fixed > some problems into debian/control file in both of them. Now, I will be > doing an upload of blacs-mpi, soon. Looking at the 'excuses' pages of > the packages blacs-mpi still is the blocker¹: > > * trying to update blacs-mpi from 1.1-28 to 1.1-28.2 (candidate is 370 days old) > * Updating blacs-mpi makes 1 depending packages uninstallable on i386: > blacs-pvm-test > * Updating blacs-mpi makes 6 non-depending packages uninstallable on > i386: scalapack-lam-dev, scalapack-lam-test, scalapack-mpich-dev, > scalapack-mpich-test, scalapack1-lam, scalapack1-mpich I just tried installing blacs-pvm-test in unstable and it worked fine. The others in the above list don't seem to exist in unstable any more, but may be lingering in testing. Does blacs-pvm need to be hinted together with blacs-mpi and scalapack? > I have taken a look at blacs-mpi and I don't see anything wrong on it. > Anyways, this package was built one year ago. Maybe it is needed to > rebuilt it again into the new conditions in unstable. Adam, would you > sponsor this upload? I'd be glad to, but let's figure out what's wrong before putting the time into another build and upload. > 1. http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=blacs-mpi -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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