Re: HDF5 Transition
Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 21:05 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine a écrit :
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:12:42AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 21:15:04 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> >
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > Just to let you know that we are planning to upload a new upstream
> > > release of the hdf5 libraries (1.8.4 => 1.8.6).
> > > We will switch the API to the version 1.8 (from the 1.6).
> > > It might break some packages but the fix is easy (just a #define).
> > > We will also change the package name because it is very likely that the
> > > API/ABI changed...
> > > We are not in an hurry but it is a pretty important package [1] [2].
> > >
> > Are any of the reverse dependencies RC buggy in sid right now (so that
> > they would be blocked from migrating if rebuilt)? How many of those
> > can't be removed in case they don't get fixed?
> >
>
> Due to recent release of 1.8.7 with fixes for Fortran, I would check
> before if it could be feasible for Debian and do a single transition
> to the new version.
We have version 1.8.7 and it is fine. I think we can start this
migration.
Any opposition ?
Sylvestre
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