[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#457167: Bug#457167: octave2.9 -- please add atlas3-base-dev to Build-Conflicts.

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2007, 17:24 +0530 schrieb Kumar Appaiah:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:37:41PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > This sounds like a problem in lapack3-dev. Sorry, but going down that
> > path means that every package in need of lapack3-dev must add a
> > build-conflict for a package it doesn't pull in itself. This sounds like
> > a fix for a problem applied at the wrong level (I may be wrong, of
> > course).
> 
> There is no other way; the reason why this was avoidable earlier was
> because your .dsc had the Build-Depends in the same order in which you
> specified in the control file. However, due to dpkg-dev changes, the
> depends are now sorted to alphabetical order.
> 
> Yes, it would be nice to reverse the order of lapack3's dependency to
> read refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, rather than the other way
> around. I'll try to take this up. But please do consider adding a
> temporary Build-conflict. (Of course, the decision is yours! :-)

The change is already committed to SVN (no need for hindering other
people's work). But my point is that lapack3-dev should probably drop
atlas3-base-dev, if it's not needed. 

AFAIK, up to now it was always refblas3-dev that was pulled in. So why
not fixate this by only having refblas3-dev in the build-depends line of
lapack3-dev?

	Thomas