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) > [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/04/msg00023.html > > -Adam Regards, -Steve
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