[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#591346: Bug#591346: Allow the installation of libhdf5-serial and libhdf5-openmpi at the same time

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

severity 591346 important
thanks

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> 
> WTF is the reason to both depend on serial and parallel flavors at
> building time instead of the parallel version libhdf5-mpi-dev? 
> Note that *if the ABI are compatible* is a wrong guess AFAIK: serial
> and parallel versions have different shlib sub-dependendecies.
> There are also many limitations in parallel edition: e.g. parallel
> edition does not support pluggable compression in writing and does
> not support variable length records, cannot coexists with
> threadsafe and C++, and so on. I think the only safe and clean approach would be
> having different lib names for MPI flavors, but upstream think
> differently at the moment. I'm not intentioned to diverge about that,
> which would require rdepends changing their building snippets forever
> in Debian, and adopt other dirty tricks.

Both bugs marked as blocked have been fixed and transitioned to testing,
resetting severity to "important".

Cheers,
        Moritz