[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#842815: Help needed for HDF5 1.10 transition of libsis-jhdf5-java

[Andreas Tille]

Hello Bernd,

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 09:18:28AM +0200, Bernd Rinn wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> On 05/27/2018 07:12 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hello Bernd,
> > 
> > sorry for nagging again but we now have another Dependency from
> > sis-jhdf5 which makes a fix for this issue even more interesting.  As I
> > said before I would also try a patch if you might hesitate to issue a
> > completely new release.
> 
> It is embarrassing to admit that I still haven't found the time to port
> JHDF5 to HDF5 1.10.
> 
> If you can come up with a patch to bridge to time that would be greatly
> appreciated!

Since I personally do not even know what HDF5 is I can not help myself
and as far as Gilles Filippini stated[1] chances are pretty low that we
from Debian will be able to come up with a patch.  What do you think
about the remark

   Have you considered using libhdf5-java[2] or libjhdf5-java instead?

Well, several projects are using libsis-hdf5-java but it might be to
join forces with one single Java library which keeps up with current
development.  I have no idea in how far libsis-hdf5-java is different
for the other libs but could you somehow imagine to unify the interface
and join forces?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2018/05/msg00112.html
[2] https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
[3] 

> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:50:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >> Hello Bernd,
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 06:54:21 +0100, you 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).
> >>>
> >>> I will keep you updated.
> >>
> >> Is there any news, may be only a patch for the existing version we
> >> could try to fix the Debian package?
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >>
> >>        Andreas.
> >>
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