Bug#659784: lapack & blas & co

[Jonathan Nieder]

Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> They are already in experimental ;)
> blas 1.2.20110419-3~exp3
> lapack 3.4.1-1~exp1

If those have the latest fixes, then I fear I have bad news.

 $ dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
 initscripts					hold
 libblas3gf					hold
 liblapack3gf					hold
 # printf '%s\n' 'libblas3gf install' 'liblapack3gf install' |
	dpkg --set-selections
 # cupt full-upgrade
 Building the package cache... 
 Initializing package resolver and worker... 
 Scheduling requested actions... 
 Resolving possible unmet dependencies... 

 The following packages will be installed:

 libblas3 liblapack3 

 The following packages will be upgraded:

 libblas3gf liblapack3gf 

 The following packages will have a not preferred version:

 xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 

 Action summary:
   2 automatically installed packages will be installed
   2 automatically installed packages will be upgraded
   2 manually installed and 1 automatically installed packages will have a not preferred version

 Need to get 3448KiB/3448KiB of archives. After unpacking 180KiB will be used.
 Do you want to continue? [y/N/q/a/?] y
 Performing requested actions:
 Get:1 http://h64-50-233-100.mdsnwi.tisp.static.tds.net/debian experimental/main libblas3 1.2.20110419-3~exp3 [204KiB]
 Get:2 http://h64-50-233-100.mdsnwi.tisp.static.tds.net/debian experimental/main libblas3gf 1.2.20110419-3~exp3 [7604B]
 Get:3 http://h64-50-233-100.mdsnwi.tisp.static.tds.net/debian experimental/main liblapack3 3.4.1-1~exp1 [3227KiB]
 Get:4 http://h64-50-233-100.mdsnwi.tisp.static.tds.net/debian experimental/main liblapack3gf 3.4.1-1~exp1 [9.9KiB]
 Fetched 3448KiB in 3s.                                                                                              
 Retrieving bug reports... Done
 Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
 Reading changelogs... Done
 Preconfiguring packages ...
 (Reading database ... 137442 files and directories currently installed.)
 Preparing to replace libblas3gf 1.2.20110419-2 (using .../libblas3gf_1.2.20110419-3~exp3_i386.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement libblas3gf ...
 Selecting previously unselected package libblas3.
 (Reading database ... 137437 files and directories currently installed.)
 Unpacking libblas3 (from .../libblas3_1.2.20110419-3~exp3_i386.deb) ...
 Setting up libblas3 (1.2.20110419-3~exp3) ...
 update-alternatives: error: alternative libblas.so.3gf can't be slave of libblas.so.3: it is a master alternative.
 dpkg: error processing libblas3 (--install):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  libblas3
 E: the command '/usr/bin/dpkg --install --no-triggers --force-depends --force-bad-path //var/cache/apt/archives/libblas3_1.2.20110419-3~exp3_i386.deb' failed: exit code '1'
 E: unable to do requested actions
 E: error performing the command 'full-upgrade'

Purging all relevant packages, installing them at the versions in sid
again, and trying the upgrade again reproduces it.