ongoing slepc/petsc transition

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:20:44 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:15 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 23:51:12 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > 
> > > That said, the HDF5 transition seems a bit premature.  There are some
> > > fundamental changes which have broken a couple of its reverse-depends,
> > > which is one reason so many packages needed to be removed from testing
> > > in order to transition it.
> > > 
> > I'm sorry but I wasn't going to hold testing hostage of hdf5 for much
> > longer than a month...
> 
> This is a new regression that happened since January 21 and broke at
> least med-fichier, with several rdeps of its own.  But I understand, it
> had to go in at some point.
> 
That would be the fix for #658491 in hdf5 1.8.8-7 I guess.  This should
fix it to do what you want, I'm not quite sure why the dep was hardcoded in the
first place:

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 77c7256..da9b914 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Description: Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - Helper tools
 Package: hdf5-tools
 Section: science
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libhdf5-7 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - Runtime tools 
  HDF5 is a file format and library for storing scientific data. 
  HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 499db35..4c84c76 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Description: Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - Helper tools
 Package: hdf5-tools
 Section: science
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libhdf5- at SONAME@ (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) - Runtime tools 
  HDF5 is a file format and library for storing scientific data. 
  HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of

Cheers,
Julien
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