Bug#746955: it is not possible to build a serial version anymore

[Thorsten Alteholz]

Package: libhdf5-dev
Version: 1.8.12+docs-1.1
Severity: important
User: alteholz at debian.org
thanks

Dear Maintainer,

some time ago there was a package libhdf5-serial-dev that I could use to 
build a serial version of package meep.
Nowadays this package was replaced by libhdf5-dev and the description 
still says:
  This package contains development files for serial platforms.


Unfortunately there are these lines in /usr/include/H5pubconf.h
   /* Define if we have parallel support */
   #define H5_HAVE_PARALLEL 1
which result in an error in /usr/include/H5public.h
   #ifdef H5_HAVE_PARALLEL
   #   define MPICH_SKIP_MPICXX 1
   #   define OMPI_SKIP_MPICXX 1
   #   include <mpi.h>
   #ifndef MPI_FILE_NULL           /*MPIO may be defined in mpi.h already */
   #   include <mpio.h>
   #endif
   #endif
as there is no mpi.h available in a serial environment.

So is this a bug or a feature and serial versions are no longer supported?

Thanks!
   Thorsten