[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Mon Feb 15 07:20:41 UTC 2016


Hi Alastair,

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:44:48PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> I've been investigating and libncl.a does not directly get used by any
> other package associated with NCL-ncarg; there is a shared-object
> variation but its called libNGncl.so.1
> which won't conflict. libncl.a gets used by ncargf77 and libncargf90
> wrappers (and newer pkg-config versions) that set the library paths.
> This allows me to move
> /usr/lib/$arch/ncarg/libncl.a safely.

Sounds good.
 
> /usr/lib/libncl.a does not appear to be used either upstream or other
> distros.

OK, this removes our need to act soon.  In any case I consider ncl not
the best choice for a name and reconsidering to something more speaking
sounds worth the effort to me.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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