Control: retitle -1 unblock: lapack/3.12.1-6 Hi Simon,
Thanks for the suggestion. I revised the fix and uploaded a new version to unstable. The debdiff can be found below: So we will need to unblock lapack/3.12.1-6 after buildd finishes their jobs. ``` diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index bfa08538..adb4b650 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +lapack (3.12.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Revise the deps for libatlas3-base (transitional) as suggested in #1110359 + Thanks to Simon McVittie for the suggestion. + + -- Mo Zhou <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:26:25 -0400 + lapack (3.12.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium [ Helmut Grohne ] diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 1c61bc90..b57e0f62 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Description: Basic Linear Algebra Reference implementations, shared library This package contains a shared version of the library. Package: libatlas3-base -Depends: libblas3 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends} +Depends: libblas3 (>= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends} Architecture: any Multi-Arch: same Section: oldlibs ``` On Thu, 2025-08-07 at 10:52 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 at 20:25:29 -0400, M. Zhou wrote: > > Package: libatlas3-base > ... > > +Depends: libblas3 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends} > ... > > Description: transitional package > > Should this be (>= ${binary:Version}) instead of (=)? > > In other packages that migrated to another name via a transitional > package (gdk-pixbuf, pango1.0) we've seen that sometimes users of stable > releases have to keep the transitional package installed for a long > time, even after it has been eliminated from Debian (hopefully during > forky in this case), because third-party packages outside Debian still > have a dependency on the old name. > > After upgrading the transitional libatlas3-base to its Debian 13 version > (for simplicity let's pretend that it's version 13) there are three > possible scenarios: > > 1. libatlas3-base (= 13), libblas3 (= 13): good. > This is the only one allowed by the proposed dependency. > > 2. libatlas3-base (= 13), libblas3 (<< 13): > bad, for the reasons Helmut gave on #1110466 > > 3. libatlas3-base (= 13), libblas3 (>> 13): > should be fine, we can assume that libblas3 (>> 13) is > "better than" libblas3 (= 13) > > So I think the best-practice for empty transitional packages is that > they should retain their previous Architecture and Multi-Arch, and have: > > Depends: the-new-package (>= some suitable version) > > Thanks, > smcv
