Bug#162608: Needs maintainer: libhdf4: The Hierarchical Data Format
- To: Mikael Hedin <mikael.hedin@gmx.net>
- Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 162608@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, silke@intevation.de, joss@debian.org, debian@adkgis.org
- Subject: Bug#162608: Needs maintainer: libhdf4: The Hierarchical Data Format
- From: Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:18:21 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20040126001820.GG27594@antares.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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- Reply-to: Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, 162608@bugs.debian.org
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Should the apps change to libhdf5 instead? Are the changes big?
Hdf5 is a completely different beast. You can't port apps with a few
greps and seds. And even if this was possible, we'd still need hdf4 to
allow users to convert their data. The h5utils packages depends on
libhdf4g for precisely this reason.
Regards,
Daniel.
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