Bug#1078743: vtk9: BD-Uninstallable on 32-bit architectures after #1068320

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:05:38 +0100 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> On 01-11-2024 22:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > In this particular case, src:hdf5 [1] no longer provides the binary package
> > libhdf5-openmpi-dev for any 32-bit architecture since version 1.10.10+repack-4
> > which means the package is out-of-date for these architectures.
> 
> And as Peter already noted libhdf5-mpi-dev doesn't provide the required 
> pieces.
> 
> @Gilles, can you help to figure out what src:vtk9 should do now since 
> you had to drop libhdf5-openmpi-dev. Instead of libhdf5-mpi-dev, should 
> libhdf5-mpich-dev be tried?

It seems to me that vtk9 should build-dep on libhdf5-mpi-dev instead of 
libhdf5-openmpi-dev, in order to build against libhdf5-mpich-dev on those 
architectures that don't support openmpi.

Cheers,
Emilio