Bug#1142591: transition: prrte

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 22/07/2026 13:25, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: transition
> 
> This is hopefully a minor transition: prrte3 -> prrte4 , only used by OpenMPI whhich builds and tests successfully with prrte4
> 
> pmix will be updated at the same time. This is technically not a transition, but
> internally they can be incompatible.
> Affected packages:
>    fortran-caffeine, gasnet, openmpi, prrte, slurm-wlm, ucc
> 
> I have tested this change (pmix 6.0.0+really5.0.9-3 to 6.1.1~rc2-1) with prrte4 and all the above package build and work.
> 
> There is a cascade of MPI packages that depend on these and in principle need transitioning, but the APIs by design do not propagate pmix/prrte changes.

libprrte3 has no rdeps, so there doesn't look like we'll have to do much on our 
side. But go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio