Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: libblas3 Version: 1.2.20110419-7 Severity: important libblas3 Provides: libblas.so.3 libatlas3-base Provides: libblas.so.3 The problem here is that I can install, for example, libblas3:amd64 and libatlas3-base:i386, and they are managed by the same alternative. Helmut and I think you

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:11:39AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The problem here is that I can install, for example, libblas3:amd64 and libatlas3-base:i386, and they are managed by the same alternative. Let me sketch a scenario to make the projected breakage explicit: Let's say my package

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 11:11 +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Helmut and I think you need to move the libblas.so.3 symlink into arch-qualified subdirectories and manage multiple alternatives, one per architecture. I think this is the way to go. It will have to wait for the release of

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
S�bastien Villemot dixit: Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 11:11 +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Helmut and I think you need to move the libblas.so.3 symlink into arch-qualified subdirectories and manage multiple alternatives, one per architecture. I think this is the way to go. It will have to

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 12:37 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Sbastien Villemot dixit: Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 11:11 +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Helmut and I think you need to move the libblas.so.3 symlink into arch-qualified subdirectories and manage multiple

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
I think you are getting this wrong. On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Essentially this is a wishlist bug, because BLAS implementations have never been multi-arch safe (and the packages are not marked as M-A:same). The particular situation that you are

Bug#760936: BLAS: not Multi-Arch safe

2014-09-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 15:17 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : Given that transitions are now frozen for Jessie, and given that the freeze is less than 2 months ahead, I think that this is too big a change to be implemented now, for several reasons: it involves multiple packages (blas,