Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Alastair, On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:44:48PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I've been investigating and libncl.a does not directly get used by any > other package associated with NCL-ncarg; there is a shared-object > variation but its called libNGncl.so.1 > which won't conflict. libncl.a

Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mark, thanks a lot for the ultra fast response. Could you come up with a better renaming suggestion and may be also put the original author in CC? Its to bad to have two different scientific data formats with the same name. I wonder whether there is some typical prefix of suffix to

Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-14 Thread Mark Holder
Hi Paul, I'm sending this to you to get you in the loop [see thread below] on a name conflict for the NCL. Both "ncl" and "nexus" are used by other libraries. Perhaps phylo-ncl or phylo-nexus could work. (or of course, it could be left to users of debian to compile from source). all the best,

Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I've been investigating and libncl.a does not directly get used by any other package associated with NCL-ncarg; there is a shared-object variation but its called libNGncl.so.1 which won't conflict. libncl.a gets used by ncargf77 and libncargf90 wrappers (and newer pkg-config versions) that

Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mark, the Debian Med team has packaged your NCL library for the Debian distribution. We received a bug report that there is a naming conflict with http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ My suggestion to solve this conflict would be to rename libncl to libnexus. In my opinion it would make sense to

Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

2016-02-07 Thread Ralf Treinen
Package: libncarg-dev,libncl-dev Version: libncarg-dev/6.3.0-6+b1 Version: libncl-dev/2.1.18+dfsg-2 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2016-02-07 Architecture: amd64 Distribution: sid Hi, automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and