Dear release team, there were several discussions on debian-science@ about the status of MPI implementations in Debian, the latest starting at [1]. The consensus was that we'd like to get rid of LAM/MPI and MPICH1 in Squeeze+1 since they are no longer cared for upstream and better alternatives exist. We'd like to have them in Squeeze nevertheless, so people have time to switch their applications over. One big step in this effort is to change the mpi-defaults package to no longer use LAM/MPI. We (as in: debian-science) agreed to use MPICH2 on the architectures were Open MPI does not build currently. This would need a binNMU of all packages build-depending on mpi-default-dev, which I'd ask you to do. The mpi-defaults packages is updated in it's Git repository and just needs to be uploaded. I have no clue if this collides with other transitions. I checked [2] but that page was not updated for a long time and I do not know of a different place to get this information. We would very much appreciate if you could schedule the binNMUs, even though the freeze is not too far away. Thanks in advance! Best regards Manuel [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/11/msg00010.html [2] https://buildd.debian.org/transitions/summary.html P.S.: Please keep d-s-m@ or me in the loop. (I'm subscribed on d-s-m@.)
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