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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 September 2005 at 20:02, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| Some more thought on this:
| 
| * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2005-09-17 19:44]:
| 
| > 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.]
| 
| In the present situation, octave2.1 depends on libhdf5-serial-1.6.4-0c2.
| This means that any user who tries to install the mpich or lam versions of
| the hdf5 libraries will have the octave packages removed.
| 
| How could we insure that this won't happen, without having to provide
| -serial-, -mpich- and -lam- flavors of the octave package?

Hm, that may be a question for debian-devel.

Dirk

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