[Debichem-devel] Bug#1076025: RM: elpa [armel armhf i386] -- ROM; FTBFS on 32-bit architectures

[James Addison]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:31:26 +0000, Graham wrote:
> I have filed bug #1078978 requesting removal of elpa's binaries on
> these architectures, lowering severity.

I've been taking a quick look at this while inspecting the status of
the python3.12-only transition (as gpaw is one of the few remaining
blockers there, and depends on elpa).

>From the build logs: the failure seems to be due to the missing
mpi_fortran_... symbols on 32-bit ARM; but those appear to be openmpi
symbols -- if the default MPI provider is (or should now be) mpich,
then should those symbols be removed from the debian/libelpa19.symbols
file?

...and, conversely: why are 64-bit builds successfully linking openmpi
and resolving those symbols, if mpich is meant to be the default?

(it's likely that I don't understand the context, but I wanted to ask
to make sure that we're not unnecessarily dropping some supported
architectures from elpa)