Bug#689426: libgdal-dev: depend on other libhdf flavors?

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:40:09PM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> 
> because libgdal-dev depends on libhdf5-serial-dev whereas other
> packages depend on libhdf5-mpi-dev or libhdf5-openmpi-dev.
> 
> Would it be possible for libgdal-dev to depend on other libhdf flavors?
> 

Just in a word: no. It is a problem due to hdf5 way of managing multi-flavor
configuration by retaining always the same names and SONAME for all libraries.

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Francesco P. Lovergine