Status of med-fichier in Debian

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi,

Gilles Filippini a écrit le 24/06/2026 à 16:21 :
> Hi Debian Science Maintainers,
> 
> The med-fichier package in Debian is stuck at upstream release 4.1.0.
> 
> Upstream has the bad habit to tie med-fichier major releases to HDF5 ones:
> 
> 
> med-fichier  HDF5
> 4.x          1.10.x
> 5.x          1.12.x
> 6.x          1.14.x
> 
> No med-fichier release supports HDF5 2.1.0 yet. Since their 6.0.0 
> release was from a few months ago I don't expect a 7.x supporting HDF5 
> 2.1.0 soon :(
> 
> I'm tired of this package (of which I have no use) and I don't want to 
> maintain it anymore. Any volunteer to take it over?
> 
> The other alternative is to remove it from Debian. But unfortunately it 
> still has a reverse dependency: freecad. See [1].
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1140627
> 
> What do you think?

I haven't seen any answer so far. I will orphan this package in a few 
weeks in case nobody steps up.

Best,
_g.
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