On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 20:17:23 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> both ants and nifti2dicom (and probably others) recent FTBFS are due to
> recentish upload of hdf5 1.8.13+docs-8  which was previously only in
> experimental after its big RF in (1.8.13+docs-1) which stopped providing
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhdf5.so' but provides separate builds for
> each flavor:
> 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/mpich/libhdf5.so     libhdf5-mpich-dev [amd64]
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/openmpi/libhdf5.so   libhdf5-openmpi-dev 
> [amd64]
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.so    libhdf5-dev [amd64] 
> 
> Gilles, I wondered, shouldn't there still be a
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhdf*.so* managed via alternatives, e.g. like
> blas/atlas do it?
> 
alternatives are the worst possible way to handle a library.

Cheers,
Julien

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