[ITP] openmpi-1.6.3-2

[marco atzeri]

On 11/16/2012 7:02 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 12:10 +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>> ok, but why shortening to libmpi ?
>> In theory there are other mpi implementation around.
>
> The libraries are named libmpi (cygmpi-1.dll, libmpi.dll.a, etc.), and I
> prefer lib package names to match the actual lib name rather than the
> source package name.  If other implementations also use libmpi as a
> library name, then anyways we will only be able to ship one (conflicting
> files).

I followed debian nomenclature and file partitioning
http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libopenmpi1.3/filelist

and I prefer to leave like that

>
>> one more dependency is not a problem.
>> Waiting for your ITP before "-4"
>
> OK.
>
>> Should we go for this route  : KEEP_LA_FILES="none"   ?
>> I already noticed that the libnetcdf-devel is broken as
>> /usr/lib/libnetcdf.la require libcurl.la that does not exist anymore.
>
> If it were up to me, I would make it the default; it would just take a
> mass rebuild to rid (almost) all packages of them.  In any case, as this
> is new to the distro, nothing else depends on it yet, so there's nothing
> to break.

I was just thinking to make the same for any future update
of my packages.

>
> Yaakov
>


Marco