On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi! > > > octave-specfun is currently uninstallable in sid, as it depends on > > libhdf5-1.8.3, while octave3.2 depends on libhdf5-1.8.4. > > Please rebuild octave-specfun against libhdf5-1.8.4. > > Actually, on further inspection, it seems that there is no need at all > to link against libhdf (and zlib, and libfftw3, and libcurses5, etc). > The package itself doesn't use these symbols, so it shouldn't be linked > against them. > This seems to be an issue for all octave packages, BTW.
Yes. mkoctfile (used to build these files) links them against all libraries that Octave itself uses. I think this has changed in upstream's development version, though. In other words, I won't change that behaviour in Debian. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org