[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#425938: hdf4-tools: uninstallable due to providing libhdf4g-run

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Package: hdf4-tools
Version: 4.1r4-20
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

hdf4-tools is uninstallable because it provides libhdf4g-run but
(naturally) depends on libhdf4g, which declares an unversioned
conflict on libhdf4g-run.  Could you please reconcile this, either by
versioning the library package's conflict(*), dropping it altogether,
or dropping the Provides: declaration?

Thanks!

(*) Because Provides: declarations lack version information, dpkg
    never treats them as matching versioned package specifications,
    even trivial ones like libhdf4g-run (>= 0).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash