[Bug 531973] Re: [UNMETDEPS] libboost-mpi-dev has unmet dependencies in Lucid

[Russel Winder]

Fabrice,

Hummm...  I guess I am totally confused and talking from a weak position
of deep ignorance of the overall packaging.

I can happily see that the MPI stuff should not be in the default set of
Boost things drawn in:  Boost MPI is a specialist thing and so should be
individually brought in on an as need basis.  However what I thought I
saw and reported was that there is an inconsistency with the packages
libboost*mpi*, i.e. the packages that are specifically labelled as MPI
related, in Ubuntu.

>From what I can see libboost-mpi-dev is in Debian Sid and points to
libboost-mpi1.42-dev.

It may be that this is just miscommunication and there is no conflict.
Lucid I guess is now history and cannot be changed.  Looking forward to
Maverick, having libboost-mpi-dev must be considered essential referring
to libboost-mpi1.42-dev or (preferably) later.

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[UNMETDEPS] libboost-mpi-dev has unmet dependencies in Lucid
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Status in “boost-defaults” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
The libboost-mpi1.40-dev package is missing from Lucid and libboost-mpi-dev depends on it.

Also libboost-mpi1.41-dev is missing from Lucid.