Re: Mpich 1/2/3

To: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Mpich 1/2/3
From: Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:05:35 +0200
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Hi Torquil,

2013/7/4 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>:
> Hi Anton!
>
> I've made many updates to the mpich package, mostly related to lintian
> warnings and errors.

I saw those commits. Great job!

> However, I have a question concerning multiarch and update-alternatives:
>
> In libmpich-dev.postinst, update-alternatives requires the library file
> paths as arguments. These paths include DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH, so the command
> dpkg-architecture is needed. So it seems that libmpich-dev must depend on
> dpkg-dev to solve this problem? Is this acceptable, or is there some another
> solution?

I had never yet such situation. But I think it is OK to add dpkg-dev into
Depends-section if it is necessary.

Anton

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