Bug#660547: Please re-enable C++ libraries

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 21:31:22 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 13:40:03 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: hdf5
> > > Version: 1.8.8-7.1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > hdf5 (1.8.8-7.1) unstable; urgency=low
> > > 
> > >   * Stop building the c++ libraries, nothing uses them. 
> > > 
> > > That's not true.  I need C++ libraries for ITK.  Please re-enable.
> > > 
> > hmm, I scanned all packages in sid and I didn't find anything with a
> > dependency on libhdf_cpp.so.7 or libhdf5_hl_cpp.so.7.  What did I miss?
> 
> Packages not yet uploaded :-) I'm working on ITK v4 for upload.  Also,
> one would expect some end users to be writing C++ code using hdf5.
> 
I guess the best would be to reintroduce them but as part of a separate
libhdf5-cpp-7 binary package (the reason I dropped them was that they
were in libhdf5-7 but not in the mpi variants, which meant the mpi
variants didn't really "Provide" libhdf5-7).  Hopefully it can wait
until we get 1.8.8 into testing though.

Cheers,
Julien