[Pkg-octave-devel] liboctave-dev insists on serial version of the hdf5 library

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-10 22:45]:

> Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> writes:
> 
> > Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
> >
> > [snip]
> >> At any rate, it is a pity that in order to replace libhdf5-7 by
> >> libhdf5-openmpi-7 we need to remove octave first.  If would be better it
> >> this could be I.
> >
> > I was able to do the switch with aptitude (in interactive mode) without
> > uninstalling octave. It is also possible with aptitude on the command
> > line using the resolver. But it indeed looks impossible with apt-get.
> 
> Sorry, it also works with apt-get.

Ok, I could make it work with apt-get also, after some interactions and
after the new patched version of the octave packages are well in place.

I could also generate a new version of octave-msh and have gmsh
co-installed with octave.  This will be a huge improvement for the Debian
users.

As you mentioned before, this change is worth going into wheezy.  For
that, we should fill a RC bug report on the issue.  If nobody objects, I
will do it soon.

Rafael