Bug#1064810: transition: mpi-defaults

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

On 26/02/2024 12:03, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 2024-02-26 07:40, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: mpi-defaults@packages.debian.org, 
> > debian-science@lists.debian.org
> > Control: affects -1 + src:mpi-defaults
> >
> > OpenMPI 5.0 drops 32-bit support, so we need to move those archs to 
> > MPICH.
> >
> > notes = "https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2023/11/msg00379.html";;
>
>
> Be mindful that Ubuntu is about to freeze for their noble LTS release.
> We're (or I'm) still updating some Debian packages with the hope to 
> get the new versions (and new packages) into noble. Since it's an LTS 
> release, our packages will still be supporting their users in, say, 3 
> or 4 years time.
>
> Would it be reasonable to pause the 32-bit mpich transition until 
> after they've frozen noble?
> Or alternatively, can this mpich transition be completed in time to 
> make it into their freeze (only days left).
>
> Drew
Hi

I think we can get mpich 4.2.0 into noble. I've been doing a full 
rebuild of mpich repds and mpich4.2 is not a transition (as feared);
I'll do an upload later today. This is independent of mpi-defaults.
I'm test-building mpich on armhf and hopefully will have a test 
completed today/tomorrow.

Regards

Alastair


Alastair

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