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

[Ana Guerrero]

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 13:03:02 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> Alright, closing.

Fine, I can fix my issues locally without too much pain, but other
people could find the rename confusing as I did. Given that going to the
back to the scheme used in Squeeze as I pointed:

> > 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?

is *not* a solution at this stage. Could we have this bug as a wishlist
asking to add documentantion about this?
hdf5 needs another update for the bug pointed below and adding a README.Debian
with this information won't hurt.

> > The problem with the upgrades still stands.
> > 
> What problem with the upgrades?

#667599, #667526

Ana