Bug#577638: mpich2: conflict over the mpd binary

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 13/04/10 at 17:14 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Dear release team,
> 
> Given that we have a way out of this for after squeeze (switching to
> hydra as the PM, thus droppping the mpd binary), I'm very tempted to
> ignore that problem for squeeze (and keep the current "solution" of
> conflicting with mpd).
> 
> Renaming the mpd binary in the mpich2 package is likely to generate a
> lot more many unsatisfied users than the conflict. It will result in a
> lot of documentations being changed with "... except if you use Debian,
> where they thought better and renamed mpd to mpich2-mpd".
> 
> Additionally, there's no easy way to do the renaming. It could possibly
> introduce subtle breakages.
> 
> So, would you consider squeeze-ignor'ing this bug?

Dear release team,

mpich2 1.3 RC1 was released this week. This version no longer ships a
mpd binary. This means that, if you decide that this bug is too serious
to ship the current mpich2 package in squeeze, we could decide to
upgrade to version 1.3. My preference goes to shipping the current
version, with the current hack.

What do you want to do?

- Lucas