Bug#552429: MPI: fix alternatives mess with runtime environment

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Thu Nov 19 23:52:17 UTC 2009


On 18/11/09 at 16:01 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 07:35 -0600 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> > Yeah, but the unconditional --removal-all looks a bit scary :-)
> 
> I know. There was discussion about that on the dpkg mailing list, IIRC.
> Other packages had similar problems. The recommended solution was to
> remove all and let u-a recreate the entries in postinst. My memory may
> be bad here, though. Anyway, you're fix is a lot nicer. ;)
> 
> > Do you want me to upload an NMU ? I have time this week.
> 
> If you'd like to, feel free to do an 0-day NMU. If Sylvestre doesn't
> have any objections, of course.
> 
> It would be cool if you could mail the debdiff, so that I can include it
> in our repository. TIA!

Hi,

I just uploaded openmpi 1.3.3-3.1 with my fixes. Attached is the
debdiff.
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