Bug#699155: hdf5: dependencies can be satisfied interchangeably with libraries providing different ABIs

[Ana Guerrero]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:20:36 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > do you have pointers/details about that ABI incompatibility?  I'm pretty
> > > sure I looked through exported symbols and headers from hdf5 a year ago,
> > > and didn't see anything that would break when building against the
> > > serial version and running against openmpi, but I may have missed
> > > something.
> > 
> > I didn't check further than the attached diff, there are mostly symbols
> > being added in the openMPI version but also some symbols dissapearing.
> > 
> OK.  So you didn't get any runtime issues with this?
>
I haven't tried :) I only checked the symbols diff quickly as said.

If you're fully sure we won't run in any runtime problems, then why
hdf5 doesn't use the same scheme than in Squeeze?
The problem with the upgrades still stands.