[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#908786: mothur-mpi contains the same binary as mothur

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:33:44AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Control: tags -1 pending
> 
> Hi Adrian,

Hi Andreas,

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:39:34AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > USEMPI seems to be no longer an upstream option,
> > so both builds produce the same binary.
> 
> Very good catch!  Thanks for this.  In fact the MPI code was removed
> 2015-08-19 so we ship the non-functional MPI uselessly since about three
> years. :-(

from looking at the source code the package in stable is likely functional.

> I'm about to build a fixed package (just droping mothur-mpi).
> 
> There is no need to fiddle around with severities since it will be fixed
> soon.  I just would like to know your motivation to file the bug as
> serious since I would have done with normal in this case since I can not
> really see what is broken.

There were two reasons:

1. Something is pretty broken, as it turns out the mothur-mpi package
is useless. If in doubt I prefer to err on the RC side since this has
a better chance of someone actually looking at the bug.

2. "apt-get install mothur-dbgsym mothur-mpi-dbgsym" results in an error
from dpkg, the lintian warning for that is how I actually found this bug.

> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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