Bug#667599: dolfin-dev: fails to upgrade from squeeze - apt does not find an upgrade path

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 27/02/2013 13:11, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2013-02-27 09:46, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>> Bad news, it doesn't fully work. A couple of cases:

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> Having real metapackages libhdf5-serial, libhdf5-openmpi, libhdf5-mpich2
> that depend on their corresponding libhdf5-foo (=$binvers) (and the libraries
> recommend these variant-metapackages vice versa) could be a possible
> path for the future to keep the hdf5 variant over soname changes.
Until we have a correct solution, what would you think about uploading
Andreas solution ? It is still better than the current solution, don't
you think?

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