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

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:01:12PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> 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).

Maybe.  However, there are already four variants of C bindings:
serial, mpich2, openmpi, and default "mpi".  Splitting C++ libraries
would mean doubling this to 8.

Why is that better than simply reactiving C++ (for all variants)?

-Steve
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