[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#500660: Bug#500660: Bug#500660: liblapack-doc: failed to upgrade when libblas-doc is installed

[Ondrej Certik]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
<sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr> wrote:
>> (Reading database ... 169935 files and directories currently
>> installed.)
>> Preparing to replace liblapack-doc 3.1.1-3 (using .../liblapack-doc_3.1.1-4_all.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement liblapack-doc ...
>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblapack-doc_3.1.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
>>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man3/xerbla.3.gz', which is also in package libblas-doc
> Interesting bug.
>
> By default, blas official tarball doesn't have any manpage. They have
> been included in our .orig.tar.gz
>
> lapack & blas have some common functions. For example, the routine
> xerbla (which is causing your issue here). There is only cosmetic
> changes here.
>
> Any way, only 2 manpages seems to be duplicate with blas:
> lsame.f
> xerbla.f
> I am going to try to rename lsame to lsame-lapack & xerbla to
> xerbla-lapack to see how it goes.

Thanks for looking into this Sylvestre.

Ondrej