Re: HDF4

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Johan,

On 05/09/2016 06:20 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 05/06/2016 05:47 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>> On 06/23/2015 05:21 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>>>> I've spent some time trying to update HDF4 a while ago, and I am
>>>> picking it up again now.
>>>
>>> Can you push your all branches and tags from your hdf4 repo? The 4.2.11
>>> changes are missing on Alioth.
>>>
>>>  git push --all && git push --tags
>>>
>>> I'd like to get this package in shape and uploaded.
>>
>> Thanks for pushing your upstream & pristine-tar branches.
>>
>> I've also pushed my final changes.
>>
>> Do you have anything to add before uploading the package?
>
> No.
> 
> I highly recommend uploading to experimental first as there may be
> FTBFS errors on some architectures. But I suppose you were planning to
> do that anyway to collect symbols.

Because of the substantial changes to the package uploading to
experimental is an obvious choice.

HDF4 is a C library, so symbols changes shouldn't happen like they do
for C++ libraries.

I'd like to do a round of reverse dependency rebuilds to verify that
they all still build successfully before considering an upload to unstable.

> On the longer term, as mentioned in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796745 I think we
> should build only without netcdf, but I think we should definitely get
> this one published first.

That seems like a good idea. I'm not really happy with the changes
required to support the -alt variant, especially because those changes
are not forwarded upstream. So I'm in favour of dropping those changes
and stick to an upstream supported configuration.

My only interest in HDF4 packaging is the fact that it's a dependency of
GDAL. As long as that works correctly, my needs for the libhdf4 package
are met.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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