Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:41:06PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Even if I am not happy about this change, it is expected.
> libnetcdf-dev depends on libnetcdf7 which depends on libhdf5-7.
> libhdf5-openmpi-7 conflicts with libhdf5-7.
> 
> Before I had the silly idea to become a hdf5 maintainer, I reported this
> bug myself #591346.
> For now, I haven't find the right solution to tackle this issue ... 
> Suggestions are welcome.
> 

The solution is having upstream adopting a sane naming scheme for mpi-enabled
flavor libraries instead of using always the same names for all. Unfortunately
they were still not available for that at the time of my last poking.
Diverging from upstream is not a good idea, so we still have to live in a non
perfect world...

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Francesco P. Lovergine