Bug#526105: scilab breaks the system upgrade due to sivp recommendation

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: scilab
Version: 5.1.1-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

The upgrade to scilab 5.1.1-3 has the effect to install sivp, which
breaks the system upgrade (sivp configuration fails, and the package
cannot even be removed: bug 526104). Indeed the postinst script of the
current sivp version (0.4.3-4) is not compatible with scilab 5.1.1-3
since it expects scilab.star in the scilab package. The recommendation
is buggy...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages scilab depends on:
ii  scilab-bin                    5.1.1-3    Scientific software package for nu
ii  scilab-data                   5.1.1-3    Scientific software package for nu
ii  scilab-include                5.1.1-3    Scientific software package for nu

Versions of packages scilab recommends:
ii  scilab-doc                    5.1.1-3    Scientific software package for nu
pn  sivp                          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages scilab suggests:
ii  gcc                           4:4.3.3-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  gfortran                      4:4.3.3-3  The GNU Fortran 95 compiler

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