Bug#1149728: netgen: autopkgtest needs update for new version of (open)mpi(ch)

[Francesco Ballarin]

Source: netgen
Followup-For: Bug #1149728
X-Debbugs-Cc: elbrus at debian.org, dparsons at debian.org

Hi,
I am not fully sure why this has been filed against src:netgen. To me, it seems
that there is nothing we can do from here.

The error message clearly says that it is due to some incompatibility between
PMIx and PRRTE. A similar bug #1147135 is even open with Package: src:prrte and
Affects: src:pmix, with basically the same error message.

The same error message appears in debci runs for src:mpi4py, src:petsc, src:dolfin,
src:fenics-dolfinx, which we co-mantain. It's quite clear IMHO that this is an
issue with the MPI libraries rather than with the end user ones.

Finally, I can't seem to remember how the "Issues preventing migration" part is
being automatically generated by britney, but it looks very odd in
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openmpi .
For instance: dolfin, fenics-dolfinx and scifem are being tested with
autopkgtest, but e.g. PETSc and mpi4py (which also rely on the MPI libraries,
and which are runtime dependencies of each of the three packages mentioned above)
are not being tested at all. This means if there was an issue in PETSc, it would
only be discovered through e.g. dolfin, and one may not even realize at first
glance that the issue is not in dolfin but in PETSc.
The list reported in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mpich is much more complete.

Thanks,
Francesco