On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 23:51:12 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> That said, the HDF5 transition seems a bit premature.  There are some
> fundamental changes which have broken a couple of its reverse-depends,
> which is one reason so many packages needed to be removed from testing
> in order to transition it.
> 
I'm sorry but I wasn't going to hold testing hostage of hdf5 for much
longer than a month...

> In particular, it's impossible to install hdf5-tools and
> libhdf5-*mpi-dev at the same time, as is required to build a handful of
> reverse-depends [3].  There's no reason the MPI and non-MPI shared libs
> should conflict.
> 
Well there's no way they can be installed together as long as they ship
the same files, this is not a new issue AFAICT...

>  [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586149
> 
And this bug is almost 2 years old, I don't see that it has anything to
do with the recent changes?

Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau          <julien.cris...@logilab.fr>
Logilab                 http://www.logilab.fr/
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