Bug#846351: h5py NMU for HDF5 1.10

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 01/12/16 10:01, Iain Lane wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:27:16AM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this issue. Indeed the HDF5 transition has made
>> quite a few RCs pop the last few days.
>>
>> Please drop the deferred and let me prepare a conventional update with your
>> changes in, plus some cleaning of the packaging. Can I ping you back for
>> sponsorship when I am done?
>>
>> The long-term solution would be to request a new release upstream which is
>> HDF5 1.10 compatible. They also recently introduced PyPy support, which I
>> know quite a few people are interested in.
>
> Okay, I cancelled it. I might be able to offer sponsorship, but can't
> promise a lot of time - just let me know and I'll see what I can do.
>
> (In the event that this drags along and somebody else ends up here, the
> previous patch should be good to re-upload.)
>
> Cheers,
>

I have submitted the following update:

   https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/h5py/h5py_2.6.0-2.dsc

which includes the cherry-picked commit you proposed, plus some 
bookkeeping of the packaging files.

It has been successfully tested on debomatic here:

 
http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/h5py/2.6.0-2/buildlog

Meanwhile, I have requested upstream to consider a new release.

Let me know if you have time to push this update, otherwise I can seek 
sponsorship within my team.

Cheers,
Ghis