[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#447555: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libamd.a', which is also in package libumfpack4-dev

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: libsuitesparse-dev
Version: 3.0.0-6.1
Severity: grave

package is not installable together with libumfpack4-dev. 

# apt-get install libsuitesparse-dev
[...]
Selecting previously deselected package libsuitesparse-dev.
Unpacking libsuitesparse-dev (from .../libsuitesparse-dev_3.0.0-6.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsuitesparse-dev_3.0.0-6.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libamd.a', which is also in package libumfpack4-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

So either libsuitesparse-dev should conflict with libumfpack4-dev or vice versa.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libsuitesparse-dev depends on:
ii  atlas3-base-dev        3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2-dev        3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3-dev            3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6-dev              2.6.1-6           GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-6.1         collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3-dev           1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3

libsuitesparse-dev recommends no packages.