Severity 470359 serious
thanks

g77 has gone from unstable, so cgal is now unbuildable. cgal is also
the last package build-depending on atlas3, thus blocking it's removal
from archive.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:38:35PM +0100, Joachim Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >Currently build-deps read:
> >
> >Build-Depends: atlas3-base-dev [!arm !armeb !armel !m68k] |
> >libatlas-3.so [!arm !armeb !armel !m68k],
> >lapack3-dev [!arm !armeb !armel !m68k], ...
> >
> >You probably want just
> >
> >Build-Depends: liblapack-dev
> >
> >To transition to the gfortran compiled version of lapack/blas/atlas.
> >It will automatically pull atlas on supported archictures, else it
> >will use lapack.
> 
> where can I find more information about the gfortran transition and about 
> its implication for package maintainers? Is there no one-to-one translation 
> for the currently used package names? On what packages should cgal depend 
> if I want to keep an explicit dependency on atlas *and* lapack.
> 
> My package has optional support for atlas *and* lapack. For maximum 
> flexibility of the library users I would like to enable support for both. 
> Thus I explicitly depend on both (e.g., linking with -llapack will not work 
> if just atlas is installed).
> 
> Is there some information about the contracts/requirements for the involved 
> virtual packages? I contacted Camm Mcguire about this, but didn't receive 
> an answer.
> 
> Joachim

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