Re: HDF 4.3.0

[Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>]

Dear Sebastiaan,

Il 04/04/24 17:33, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
> HDF 4.3.0 has been released which no longer installs several private 
> headers and stops exporting private symbols, see:
>
>
> https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf4/blob/hdf4.3.0/doc/HDF-4.2-to-4.3-migration.md
>
> The new release does not bump the SONAME, despite these potentially 
> breaking changes.
>
> The find out whether we can move HDF 4.3.0 without breaking too many 
> rdeps, I did a round of rebuilds which revealed that 7 of 14 rdeps FTBFS 
> although only 3 due to these changes in HDF 4.3.0.
>
> -Werror=implicit-function-declaration is the most common FTBFS cause.
>
> I've requested the removal of librsl because it's RC buggy since 2018 
> with no activity of its maintainer since 2014. Let's not waste time on 
> this package in the future.
>
> Our only affected package is python-hdf4, which already has a patch in 
> git. Two other packages have patches in the BTS, see:
>
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-gis@lists.debian.org&tag=hdf-4.3
>
> Since there were no major blockers, I'll move the package to unstable 
> soon. I'll wait for the experimental build on riscv64 and and give debci 
> a chance to run its jobs for the rdeps with the package from experimental.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas

Thanks a lot for taking care of it.
Please let me know if I can support you in any way.

regards
--
Antonio Valentino