[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#328732: please update octave2.1-headers's
dependencies
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Sat Sep 17 17:44:18 UTC 2005
[Cc: to Josselin Muette, maintainer of the libhdf5 packages.]
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [2005-09-16 22:07]:
> On 17 September 2005 at 04:37, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> | 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.
>
> No, as they all provide the virtual package "libblas.so.3" that the Depends:
> is really on, as per the shlibs files. (Unless Camm changed that
> recently...)
Yes, this seems to be the current situation. Actually, the packages in
the alternations are not incompatible, much to the contrary, they all
provide libblas-3.so and liblabpack-3.so through the alternatives
mechanism. In this case, my rant above is moot.
Should I also add to the Build-Depends the virtual packages libblas-3.so
and liblapack-3.so as in octave2.1:
lapack3-dev | atlas3-base-dev | liblapack-3.so
refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev | libblas-3.so
Another question: octave2.1-headers has also currently the following
binary dependency:
libhdf5-serial-dev | libhdf5-lam-dev | libhdf5-mpich-dev
These packages conflict with each other and this is a potential source of
problems. I do not know whether these packages are binary incompatible or
not [hence the Cc: to Josselin.]
> | I hope the other members of the Debian Octave Group will comment on this.
>
> Sure thing. :)
Well, the other members are quite silent since this group has been
created. For now, the number of active developers is not significantly
greater than 1 (p-level < 0.0001 :-).
--
Rafael
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