Bug#488520: installation-reports: Itanium X server doesn't work, but everything else seems to.

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:35:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > lapack also has a rather worrying note:
> >
> > One or more critical lapack library errors were discovered when this
> >  package was built.  As of the time of this writing, all known such
> >  errors are due to compiler and/or ld.so errors on the affected
> >  architectures.  The lapack libraries in this set of packages then,
> >  while practically useless for serious numerical research, are
> >  provided here nonetheless to facilitate smooth upgrades of lapack
> >  into Debian as a whole.
> 
> I agree that this is a very strange and worrying note. However, as I have 
> no idea what package would be pulling in lapack and what exact package is 
> causing this note (I'd guess liblapack3gf),

Yes, it is. I've filed #488561 about this. 

Thanks, 

Chris