On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:35:49PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Package: octave3.2-headers > Version: 3.2.4-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: sid > > When upgrading blas to version 1.2-6, mkoctfile no longer works: > the linker cannot find -lblas-3gf. > > The reason is that latest version of blas introduces a change in > the way of dealing with alternative implementations of BLAS. > In particular, the symlink /usr/lib/libblas-3gf.a has disappeared. > > Note that, when upgrading blas package, this symlink is not destroyed > because of a bug in blas package [1]. But on fresh installations (and > therefore on build daemons), the libblas-3gf.a symlink is not there. > > I guess the solution is to rebuild the packages for Octave 3.2 on sid.
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576801 I'm not sure that's sufficient. There's nothing preventing buildd maintainers from having blas packages permanently installed (especially on slower arches, this can happen for often used packages). So, I can't be sure that a buildd is really installing blas vs upgrading it. I guess we need a fixed blas package first. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org