[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#457167: Bug#457167: octave2.9 -- please add atlas3-base-dev to Build-Conflicts.

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:37:41PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Even if it isn't there, it will be _pulled_ in, because it is the
> > first alternate dependency for lapack3-dev, unless it is in
> > Build-Conflicts. So, please remove it completely from Build-Depends,
> > and add it to Build-conflicts to ensure it isn't used at all.
> 
> This sounds like a problem in lapack3-dev. Sorry, but going down that
> path means that every package in need of lapack3-dev must add a
> build-conflict for a package it doesn't pull in itself. This sounds like
> a fix for a problem applied at the wrong level (I may be wrong, of
> course).

There is no other way; the reason why this was avoidable earlier was
because your .dsc had the Build-Depends in the same order in which you
specified in the control file. However, due to dpkg-dev changes, the
depends are now sorted to alphabetical order.

Yes, it would be nice to reverse the order of lapack3's dependency to
read refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, rather than the other way
around. I'll try to take this up. But please do consider adding a
temporary Build-conflict. (Of course, the decision is yours! :-)

FWIW, I am forced to add Build-Conflict for my package because of
issues with atlas2 being present in the build, but that doesn't apply
to octave2.9.

Thanks!

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah,
458, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036
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