[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#457167: Bug#457167: octave2.9 -- please add atlas3-base-dev to Build-Conflicts.
Kumar Appaiah
akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in
Thu Dec 20 10:32:36 UTC 2007
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:20:52AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > If you have observed, dpkg-source has started reordering dependencies,
> > which causes atlas to be pulled into the build environment of
> > octave2.9 (see #457151 for context). As octave needn't explicitly
> > depend on atlas (the optional dependency on atlas is enough), I would
> > request you to please Build-Conflict on atlas3-base-dev.
>
> I wonder if we shouldn't drop atlas completely from the build-depends
> line. Is there a reason why it should be there?
Even if it isn't there, it will be _pulled_ in, because it is the
first alternate dependency for lapack3-dev, unless it is in
Build-Conflicts. So, please remove it completely from Build-Depends,
and add it to Build-conflicts to ensure it isn't used at all.
Thanks!
Kumar
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