On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:21 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:49:52AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > <soapbox> > > Speaking of which, this is holding up the OpenCASCADE 6.5.0 transition, > > and HDF5 is broken an LAM affecting at least gmsh and petsc (and almost > > certainly salome when we get our act together on that package), so IMO > > it would be really helpful to [finally] get some movement on the LAM to > > MPICH2 change in mpi-defaults. Can we please try to do this sooner > > rather than later? > > > > I notice nobody responded to my last email about this [6], and if we > > just sit and wait for Godot to fix OpenMPI on the other arches, then > > wheezy will release with this awful mess still in Debian, as just > > happened with squeeze. > > > > LAM Delenda Est!! > > </soapbox> > > I agree with you that we should switch from LAM to MPICH2 in > mpi-defaults now. In fact, bug #555653 requesting this change > was marked confirmed and pending over a year ago! > > This message is reaching all the listed maintainers of mpi-defaults. > I'd suggest one of you go ahead and make the upload! (If you prefer, > I can do it) And here's another reason to switch: MPICH2 builds on HURD, LAM doesn't, so the entire MPI reverse-depends chain is held up on HURD until we make this change. Remind me, what are the reasons to wait? > > [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/04/msg00023.html LAM Delenda Est!! -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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