[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1143178: mrbayes-mpi: Spawns instances of regular mb instead of running one parallel instance
Stepan
dabonatan at proton.me
Fri Jul 31 12:55:55 BST 2026
Package: mrbayes-mpi
Version: 3.2.7a-7+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: dabonatan at proton.me
Dear Maintainer,
Running mb-mpi spawn instances of MrBayes instead of running the version
with parallel support. Compiling the parallel version from git source
produces a working version (https://github.com/NBISweden/MrBayes,
./configure --with-mpi=yes), but compiling the source debian package
doesn't.
A smaller problem is that the package is undocumented. The official
instructions say that the parallel version should be run with `mpirun`:
`mpirun -np 4 mb file.nex`. The debian package ships `mb-mpi` executable,
which is a bash wrapper that does that with environmental variable
MPI_OPTIONS passed to mpirun as options. But to figure it out, a user
needs to read the script.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mrbayes-mpi depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-17
ii libhmsbeagle1v5 4.0.1+dfsg-5
ii libreadline8t64 8.3-4
ii mpi-default-bin 1.20
ii ssh 1:10.4p1-2
mrbayes-mpi recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mrbayes-mpi suggests:
pn mpi-default <none>
ii mrbayes-doc 3.2.7a-7
-- no debconf information
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