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

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:44:41AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> My knowledge of the buildd is quite sparse, but I would guess that this
> will not happen if the solution proposed by Sébastien is adopted, because
> in the alternation of the liboctave-dev dependencies
> libhdf5-dev|libhdf5-openmpi-dev|libhdf5-mpich2-dev, the buildds will
> always pick the first one.  Am I wrong?

They will only pick the first one if none of the other two isn't
installed already. Some time ago there was the idea to build packages in
as "dirty" a chroot as possible.[1]
I don't like that idea personally, but the fact is that nothing forbids
a buildd maintainer from pre-installing packages (afaik, it's done with
texlive on some embedded architectures because generating font files
takes ages).

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00869.html

	Thomas