Bug#739266: nmu: hdf5_1.8.8-9

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2014-02-17 13:27, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Steffen Grunewald wrote, On 17/02/2014 14:03:
> > Hi Gilles,
> >
> > > > > nmu hdf5_1.8.8-9 . ALL . stable . -m "Rebuild with current gfortran 
> > > > > in wheezy (closes: #739261)"
> > > >
> > > > Are there plans to make libhdf5-serial-dev work again, aka #706044?
> > >
> > > I hadn't. But this is indeed a good opportunity to fix it as well. So
> > > the plan would be to upload to stable a fix for #706044 which would
> > > close #739266 by the way. Am I reading you correctly?
> >
> > If that could be done, we'd get rid of a quite nasty issue, indeed.
> > (I still have no idea how #706044 could slip through during Wheezy
> > freeze.)
> >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > Thank you - there are quite some people around who would be very 
> > happy!
>
> Let's go this way then.

I've not looked at the detail of the bug, but the metadata for #706044 
indicates that it affects the package in unstable as well. If that's 
correct then it needs to be fixed in unstable before considering a 
stable fix.

Regards,

Adam