Hi, It seems impossible to elegantly solve this bug without having hooks in update-alternatives (a wishlist bug is filed for that).
In the meantime, a workaround has been implemented in order to minimize the incidence of this bug. Starting from version 3.8.4-8 of Atlas, the Lapack alternative provided by Atlas has a lower priority than the one provided by Netlib's reference Lapack. That means that the bug will never hit as long as the alternatives are left in automatic mode (which is the default). The downside is that one won't automatically benefit from the optimizations made by Atlas into Lapack, unless the alternative is manually modified. The decision to implement this solution has been made jointly by Sylvestre Ledru (maintainer), Julien Cristau (Release Team) and myself, during the Debian Science Sprint kindly sponsored by ESRF, Grenoble, France. -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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