Bug#515947: science-mathematics-dev: Depends on non -dev library packages

Andreas Tille tillea at rki.de
Wed Feb 18 16:45:57 UTC 2009


On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> Making this package depend on other libraries is both non-sensical and
> useless.  I suggest to change the following dependencies:
>
> libglpk0 -> libglpk-dev
> libsuperlu3 -> libsuperlu3-dev
> libslepc2.3.2 -> libslepc2.3.2-dev
> libmesh0.6.1 -> libmesh0.6.2-dev
>
> Note that libmesh0.6.1 does not even exist in Debian.

Good catch.  I changed this in SVN.  I might add that my long term plan
is to enable to detect blends-dev package to detect the version
number automatically.  But this is a _long_ _term_ plan.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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