* Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-16 21:54]:
> Package: octave2.1-headers
> Version: 2.1.71-3
> Severity: important
>
> In general, octave2.1-headers's dependencies should probably reflect
> octave2.1's build-dependencies. In particular, building octave2.1 against
> gfortran causes mkoctfile to refer to gfortran and its development
> libraries, whereas octave2.1-headers still depends on g77 | fort77, causing
> the new octave-forge package to FTBFS. It's possible that other
> dependencies will also need to be updated, though nothing else jumps out at
> me.
Thanks for spotting this problem. Besides the gfortran vs g77
incompatibility, I see other dependencies that can also cause problems:
refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev
lapack3-dev | atlas3-base-dev
libhdf5-serial-dev
The first two are problematic because of the alternation. If Octave is
build with, say, refblas3-dev then mkoctfile will fail if the system
contains only atlas3-base-dev, even though octave2.1-headears could be
happily installed.
The dependency on libhdf5-serial-dev is problematic because it is
versioned in Build-Depends. It should also be so for octave2.1-headers.
I am inclined to change both the Build-Dependencies and the binary
dependencies for octave2.1-headers to the following:
refblas3-dev
lapack3-dev
libhdf5-serial-dev (>= 1.6.4)
I hope the other members of the Debian Octave Group will comment on this.
--
Rafael
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