[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#521221: Bug#521221: libhdf5-openmpi-1.6.6-0: simultaneous installation of -serial and -mpi packages

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:43:46PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> Package: libhdf5-openmpi-1.6.6-0
> Version: 1.6.6-4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> ===============================================
> Consider simultaneous installation of serial and parallelized (-mpi) packages. So the needed 
> library will be choosen by the application. This will give more flexibility as applications 
> that need the serial version can abe installed on the same system with applications that 
> need the -mpi version. (Similar as has been done by libgpiv3 and libgpiv-mpi3.)
> 

It would be nice, but note that in the case of libgpiv3 it is supported upstream: the
MPI flavor has a different lib name and soname. This is not the case of HDF5.

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Francesco P. Lovergine