Bug#586149: Please consider the usage of update-alternatives for hdf5 libraries

[Adam C Powell IV]

severity 586149 serious
retitle 586149 Conflict between hdf5-tools and libhdf5-mpi-dev prevents several packages from building
block 661301 by 586149
thanks

Hi again,

Because this causes other packages to FTBFS, it really needs to be an RC
bug.

-Adam

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 00:12 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's a better way to do this by just having different shared library
> file names and sonames for each of the shared library packages.  Then
> the -dev packages can conflict, while one can install multiple packages
> using the different shared libraries simultaneously, not one-at-a-time
> as update-alternatives would do.
> 
> Note this would also allow simultaneous install of hdf5-tools and
> libhdf5-mpi-dev which is required to build several HDF5 reverse-depends,
> such as med-fichier.  This represents a major regression vs. 1.8.6 and
> should be fixed as soon as possible.
> 
> I'll work on a patch tomorrow and will post it to this bug.
> 
> -Adam
-- 
GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B  C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6

Engineering consulting with open source tools
http://www.opennovation.com/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/attachments/20120226/2b01d050/attachment.pgp>