Mpich 1/2/3
Hi!
I am a maintainer of the "mpich2" package. My goal is to package Mpich
3.0.4 and get someone from the Debian Science team to upload it to Sid.
Before Lucas Nussbaum stepped down as a maintainer, we decided that it
would be a good idea to change the source package name from "mpich2" to
"mpich" at the same time.
A source package called "mpich" already exists, but the software is very
old and I don't really see the usefulness of it anymore. Perhaps I am
wrong? I contacted the maintainers of "mpich" to ask, but did not get a
response. Therefore I'm asking the Debian Science team.
Do you guys think the old "mpich" source package can be removed from Sid
and Testing? I have checked the rdepends of all its associated binary
packages. The only instance of an non-mpich package referring to a
binary package from the "mpich" source is the package
"science-nanoscale-physics", which only suggests libmpich1.0gf.
Mpich 3 is a much improved version of this software, so perhaps the old
mpich source package can be eliminated, so I can go ahead and work on
renaming the current mpich2 to mpich, and upgrade it to the newest
upstream Mpich version 3.0.4?
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
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