Comment 5 for bug 700036

On 21 April 2011 17:17, pablomme <email address hidden> wrote:
> Could somebody please change the openmpi-bin package dependency on
> openmpi-checkpoint from "recommends" to "suggests", to stop the flood of
> duplicates? This is what most commonly pulls blcr-dkms, which is non
> functional since kernel 2.6.35 and its failing to build causes an error
> to show up on every attempt to rebuild the dkms modules, which users
> tend to eventually report. There's about 0.95 reports a day on average
> (116 duplicates between 18 November and 21 April).
>
> libmpich2-2 also pulls it in via its "depends" on libcr0 - I think this
> is a mistake, it should be a "recommends" at most, but preferably a
> "suggests", like for OpenMPI. Neither MPI library needs blcr to work.

Why not fix the reporting problem by patching the bug submission tool
to check for duplicates? It would be a useful feature more generally
in other cases too surely?

I have a patch for this, adding support for more recent kernels in
testing/development with the upstream authors at the moment, but there
are a number of non-trivial changes in code that may have usage cases
I'm not aware of or subtle bugs in corner cases so I'm awaiting an ACK
from them to proceed.

Alan