Bug#938925: xmds2: fails mpi hdf5 tests

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://sourceforge.net/p/xmds/mailman/message/36758833/

* Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> [2019-08-30 17:02]:

> Source: xmds2
> Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-2
> Severity: serious
>
> xmds2's mpi/hdf5 tests (test_mpi_xsilloading_hdf5 etc) have recently started 
> failing.
>
> h5py was recently (2.9.0-4) updated to build with mpi support, that is 
> built against libhdf5-mpi-dev (aided by mpi4py) rather than libhdf5-dev.
>
> I don't know if it means xmds2 just needs to be rebuilt against the 
> new h5py/mpi4py packages or if the problem is more complex than that.
>
> The xmds2 autopkgtest failure is holding back h5py with mpi support 
> from migrating to testing.

Thanks for this bug report.  I established a preliminary diagnostic of 
the problem and kept the upstream authors informed.

Rafael Laboissière