Bug#651997: python-dolfin: unknown symbol: wrapper_dgesv_

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:46:46 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Andreas Kloeckner <inform at tiker.net> wrote:
> > Did, and it helped. Thanks very much!
> 
> Good!
> 
> > This being as it is, could you upload a new package with tightened
> > dependencies?
> 
> The dependency on libarmadillo2 is added automatically by
> ${shlibs:Depends}. I guess I could add a version requirement for
> libarmadillo-dev in Build-Depends, but DOLFIN does not depend on a
> specific version of Armadillo, so I don't see why I should. You had
> this problem because you were using an old libarmadillo2 (version
> 1:2.2.5+dfsg-1) from testing while you using DOLFIN (version 1.0.0-1)
> from unstable, which was built against a newer libarmadillo2 package
> from unstable. I guess this is a problem you will see from time to
> time when mixing packages from testing and unstable.
> 
No, it absolutely isn't.  If libarmadillo2 exports new symbols then it
has to bump the version in its shlibs declaration.  If it didn't do
that, this is a serious bug in that package.

Cheers,
Julien
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