[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#820060: Debian Bug#820060: python-biom-format: broken on big-endian architectures

[Andreas Tille]

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Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/biocore/biom-format/issues/803


Hi,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:46:31AM -0700, Daniel McDonald wrote:
> 
> Thanks for following up. As I understand it, this is an issue with either
> h5py or libhdf5. We have not modified the behavior of these libraries, and
> are using them in a very basic manner; endianness is outside of our control
> here. It is possible the issue is related to (
> https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/428) which appears to still be open.

I have pinged that issue in April and right now.  There is no sign that
this issue will be solved soon.  For documentation reasons I have opened
issue #803[1] to get some notification in case h5py might be fixed (or
you develop a clever workaround?).

Kind regards
       Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/biocore/biom-format/issues/803

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