[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#842815: Re-opening: Please support HDF5 1.10

[pini]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:06:27 +0100 Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>
wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 06:54:21AM +0100, Bernd Rinn wrote:
> > the migration of JHDF5 to HDF5 1.10 is ongoing and mostly depend on me
> > having a block of time I can spend on it. Your analysis of the work that
> > needs to be done is right from what I can see. The plan is to switch to
> > using the JNI library from the HDF group wherever possible (it may still
> > be necessary to have a small JNI library though as some calls appear to
> > be missing).
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
>  
> > I will keep you updated.
> 
> This would be very helpful.  Just to let you know:  If you want to have
> JHDF5 distributed with the next stable Debian release the deadline for a
> fix would be about Christmas since there is a freeze at 5.1.2017 and the
> package needs 10 days from beeing uploaded to make it into the pool
> called "testing" where all release candidates are residing.
> 
> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation

The hdf5 package now in Debian experimental builds the java wrapper
library shipped with hdf5-1.10: libhdf5-java, libhdf5-jni.

Thanks,

_g.