[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#328732: please update octave2.1-headers's dependencies

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> [2005-09-16 21:54]:

> Package: octave2.1-headers
> Version: 2.1.71-3
> Severity: important
> 
> In general, octave2.1-headers's dependencies should probably reflect
> octave2.1's build-dependencies.  In particular, building octave2.1 against
> gfortran causes mkoctfile to refer to gfortran and its development
> libraries, whereas octave2.1-headers still depends on g77 | fort77, causing
> the new octave-forge package to FTBFS.  It's possible that other
> dependencies will also need to be updated, though nothing else jumps out at
> me.

Thanks for spotting this problem.  Besides the gfortran vs g77
incompatibility, I see other dependencies that can also cause problems:

    refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev
    lapack3-dev | atlas3-base-dev
    libhdf5-serial-dev

The first two are problematic because of the alternation.  If Octave is
build with, say, refblas3-dev then mkoctfile will fail if the system
contains only atlas3-base-dev, even though octave2.1-headears could be
happily installed.

The dependency on libhdf5-serial-dev is problematic because it is
versioned in Build-Depends.  It should also be so for octave2.1-headers. 

I am inclined to change both the Build-Dependencies and the binary
dependencies for octave2.1-headers to the following:

    refblas3-dev
    lapack3-dev
    libhdf5-serial-dev (>= 1.6.4)
    
I hope the other members of the Debian Octave Group will comment on this.

-- 
Rafael