Bug#874802: libcblas3 and libatlas3-base: error when trying to install together

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:11:46PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> - completely dropping libcblas3 (and libcblas-dev). These two packages are
>   actually useless, because they provide the same C interface to BLAS than the
>   other BLAS implementations (libblas3, libatlas3-base, libopenblas-base), but
>   in a less optimized way;

I made a mistake here. Paradoxically libcblas-dev does not provide the
standardized C API for BLAS, which is called… “CBLAS”; it only provides the
Fortran API. See the discussion in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2017/09/msg00038.html

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