Bug#703340: hdf5: Some upgrade scenarios does not fully work

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Package: hdf5
Version: 1.8.8-9.1
Severity: important

Hello,

#667599 and #667526 have been partly fixed by the upload of version
1.8.8-9.1.
However, as detailed here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667599#86
There are still some upgrades scenarios which are not providing the optimal solution.
I am reporting that as a new bug report to provide a cleaner description.

Lame C/C of Ana's information:
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Bad news, it doesn't fully work. A couple of cases:

A) Minimal installation of Squeeze (actually a cowbuilder instance) where
it's installed libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 and libhdf5-serial-dev. After the upgrade to
wheezy, libhdf5-7 from Wheezy is installed  while libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 from 
Squeeze is kept and the -dev package has been removed:

# dpkg -l | grep hdf5
ii  hdf5-helpers                    1.8.8-9.1             amd64 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - Helper tools
ii  libhdf5-7                       1.8.8-9.1             amd64 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - runtime files - serial version
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.8.4            1.8.4-patch1-2        amd64 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - runtime files - serial version


(see test1-missing-serial-dev.txt)

The same problem exists with the *openmpi* version.



B) Minimal installation of Squeeze where it's installed
libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4 and r-cran-hdf5. After the upgrade to Wheezy,
libhdf5-7 from Wheezy is installed (the serial version) while 
hdf5-openmpi-1.8.4 from Squeeze is kept. r-cran-hdf5 is updated fine.


# dpkg -l | grep hdf5
ii  libhdf5-7                       1.8.8-9.1               amd64 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - runtime files - serial version
ii  libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4           1.8.4-patch1-2          amd64 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - runtime files - OpenMPI version
ii  r-cran-hdf5                     1.6.10-1+b1             amd64        GNU R package interfacing the NCSA HDF5 library
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Andreas replied to this bug here.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667599#91


Sylvestre


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