Re: plastimatch/1.6.5+dfsg1-1 prep

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 11:01 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Ghislain,
> > Other comments:
> > 
> > - "Add libblas-dev dependency (sub-dependency of libdlib-dev) to
> > plastimatch"
> > 
> > If libdlib-dev is missing a dependency (BLAS), it should be fixed
> > there. Transitive dependencies should not happen unless the dependency
> > in question is optional (like a specific backend, or extra feature).
> > 
> > If plastimatch directly depends on BLAS, then the right dependency
> > should be libblas-dev | libblas.so, to allow any implementation of BLAS
> > (netlib, atlas or openblas) to fulfill it. 
> 
> Hmmm, this message droped in my inbox after uploading.  I'm not sure how
> important this might be - in any case the package has built nicely.

Both libblas-dev and libblas-dev | libblas.so would lead to successful
builds on autobuilders. The latter always pick libblas-dev in case an
alternative implementation is not already installed.

> Could you please be more verbose what effect the additional dependency
> might have?

It is only a big deal for local builds, where you might have a BLAS
compatible package already installed (which provides libblas.so).

Ghis