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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] liboctave-dev insists on serial version of the hdf5 library



Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-08-14 11:34]:
>
>> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes:
>> 
>> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-08-14 09:53]:
>> >> To summarize, my feeling is that allowing the co-instability of
>> >> liboctave-dev with all 3 versions of HDF5 brings clear advantages (less
>> >> co-instability issues) and at the same time it won't break anything for
>> >> people using the serial HDF5 version. People wanting to use the parallel
>> >> versions will be allowed to do so; in the worst case they could be hit
>> >> by the partial ABI-incompatibility, but it is still better than the
>> >> current situation where we just forbid them from using the parallel
>> >> version.
>> >
>> > I agree with your conclusion.  What should we do now? Fill the RC bug
>> > report and go ahead with the change in the master branch?
>> 
>> I am not sure this issue is of RC severity, in my view it is even of
>> wishlist severity.
>
> I would say it is at least of normal severity, since there is a
> regression from squeeze.

Agreed.

>> I would rather directly file a bug against release.debian.org asking for
>> pre-approval, using the text that you wrote and attaching the patch.
>> Then, if the Release Team agrees, we commit to master and upload to
>> unstable.
>
> Ok, I will file the bug report later today.

Thanks.

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