[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#548539: Bug#548539: Bug#548539: libatlas-dev: Conflict with libblas-dev

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 28 septembre 2009 à 07:50 +0900, Ryo IGARASHI a écrit :
> Thank you for the quick feedback.
You are welcome.

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > So, what do you think should be the solution here ?
> > * move cblas.h to /usr/include/atlas (for now, my favorite)
> > * leave only headers like in the previous package:
> > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/libatlas-headers/filelist
> 
> These two will be an easy solution. However, almost all cBLAS-using
> software includes not <atlas/cblas.h> but <cblas.h>, building user
> software with installing only libatlas-dev and not libblas-dev will fail.
For now, in the current atlas packaging, there is no cblas.h file... 
Therefor, I doubt there is much packages using it.

> Well, the interface defined in cblas.h is standard, so ATLAS will
> properly works with cblas.h from libblas-dev.
> 
> > * use the alternative system
> 
> I prefer this option. As mentioned above, preference of libblas-dev
> should be higher than that of atlas provided version. The user of this
> header file will be very happy when this alternative usage is mentioned
> in README.Debian.
OK. 
Ondrej (as libblas-dev maintainer), what is your opinion on this ?

> > * add a conflicts ;)
> 
> This should be the last option ;)
Indeed.

Sylvestre