Bug#643767: libatlas3-base: fails to install: update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas/libblas.so.3 doesn't exist.

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: libatlas3-base
Version: 3.8.4-4~exp1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The package fails to install:
| # apt-get install libatlas3-base/experimental
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| Selected version '3.8.4-4~exp1' (Debian:experimental [i386]) for 'libatlas3-base'
| The following extra packages will be installed:
|   libgfortran3
| Suggested packages:
|   liblapack3
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   libatlas3-base libgfortran3
| 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 5266 kB of archives.
| After this operation, 16.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
| Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
| Get:1 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libgfortran3 i386 4.6.1-13 [355 kB]
| Get:2 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main libatlas3-base i386 3.8.4-4~exp1 [4911 kB]
| Fetched 5266 kB in 0s (17.7 MB/s)
| debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
| Selecting previously unselected package libgfortran3.
| (Reading database ... 11512 files and directories currently installed.)
| Unpacking libgfortran3 (from .../libgfortran3_4.6.1-13_i386.deb) ...
| Selecting previously unselected package libatlas3-base.
| Unpacking libatlas3-base (from .../libatlas3-base_3.8.4-4~exp1_i386.deb) ...
| Setting up libgfortran3 (4.6.1-13) ...
| Setting up libatlas3-base (3.8.4-4~exp1) ...
| update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas/libblas.so.3 doesn't exist.
| dpkg: error processing libatlas3-base (--configure):
|  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  libatlas3-base
| configured to not write apport reports
|                                       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Jakub Wilk