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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-14 09:53]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
>
> > [sni[]
> > Right now, all packages that depend on libhdf5-openmpi-7 are not
> > co-installable with octave:
> 
> You probably meant liboctave-dev. As already mentionned, Octave (and
> Scilab) are coinstallable with libhdf5-openmpi-7.
> [snip]

Yes, I meant liboctave-dev.

> [snip]
> To summarize, my feeling is that allowing the co-instability of
> liboctave-dev with all 3 versions of HDF5 brings clear advantages (less
> co-instability issues) and at the same time it won't break anything for
> people using the serial HDF5 version. People wanting to use the parallel
> versions will be allowed to do so; in the worst case they could be hit
> by the partial ABI-incompatibility, but it is still better than the
> current situation where we just forbid them from using the parallel
> version.

I agree with your conclusion.  What should we do now? Fill the RC bug
report and go ahead with the change in the master branch?
 
Rafael