Re: HDF4

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Johan,

Thanks for your work on HDF4.

On 06/23/2015 05:21 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> I'm still wondering what I should do with the documentation. That is
> currenltly packaged as uuencoded files in the debian dir.
> I was wondering what I should do:
> * update the files and add them to debian/copyright
> * remove the files and so remove the hdf4-docs package
> 
> The documentation can be downloaded at:
> https://www.hdfgroup.org/release4/doc/index.html

I'm not sure how valuable including the documentation is. In the age of
HDF5 it may not be worth the effort to update this for HDF4.

> There are still a lot of lintian issues in the package, but rather
> than trying to fixing all of them now I think it is better to upload
> the current package rather fast (to experimental, hdf4 tends to fail
> on at least one architecture):   I have some more drastic changes in
> mind which may be a better time to cover the remaining errors:
> currently the package builds to versions of the hdf4 library: one with
> netcdf support (an ancient version) and one without (libhdf-alt).
> Since we have netcdf in a different package, I think we could do with
> just a version without netcdf: packages which need netcdf can link to
> the netcdf package. This is the same way hdf4 is packaged in fedora.

Assuming there are no lintian errors the above sounds reasonable.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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