Re: [frankie@debian.org: HDF5 transition]
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Dear RMs
>
> it is now time to start with a transition of HDF5 library in unstable,
> after months of permanence in experimental. The 1.8.3 is built in 1.6
> compatible mode, so it should not require changes to sources.
> They already depend on libhdf5-serial-dev, so a simple rebuild should suffice
> for a smooth transition. If you had not concerns about, I would upload in
> sid the hdf5 1.8.3 ASAP. Note that upstream moved to a proper SONAME
> support, so distributed new libraries will drop debian-specific versioning in their
> names, still used in 1.6 series. All that should be transparent to other
> packages.
Please upload.
Cheers
Luk
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