[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#328732: please update octave2.1-headers's dependencies

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Some more thought on this:

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2005-09-17 19:44]:

> Another question: octave2.1-headers has also currently the following
> binary dependency:
> 
>     libhdf5-serial-dev | libhdf5-lam-dev | libhdf5-mpich-dev
> 
> These packages conflict with each other and this is a potential source of
> problems.  I do not know whether these packages are binary incompatible or
> not [hence the Cc: to Josselin.]

In the present situation, octave2.1 depends on libhdf5-serial-1.6.4-0c2.
This means that any user who tries to install the mpich or lam versions of
the hdf5 libraries will have the octave packages removed.

How could we insure that this won't happen, without having to provide
-serial-, -mpich- and -lam- flavors of the octave package?

-- 
Rafael