Bug#758694: libhdf5-dev: please support Fortran 2003 interface

[Andreas Hirczy]

Package: libhdf5-dev
Version: 1.8.8-9.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Official Debian packages for HDF5 are built without support for Fortran 2003;
therefore some new features are not available for users of Fortran.

It's a one line change in ./debian/rules; just replace
> SERIAL_ONLY_FLAGS = --enable-fortran --enable-threadsafe --enable-cxx
with
> SERIAL_ONLY_FLAGS = --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003 --enable-threadsafe --enable-cxx

The compiled package 1.8.12 from Debian Sid    works after recompiling on Debian Sid. 
The compiled package 1.8.8  from Debian Wheezy works after recompiling on Debian Wheezy. 

You can find some additional information and a small test program on
<https://itp.tugraz.at/~ahi/Computer/hdf5/hdf5-f2003/>. We use the modified
deb packages from
<https://itp.tugraz.at/Comp/debian/dists/wheezy/backports/binary-amd64/> on
our computers with success - but we are no heavy users of HDF5 so experience
is limited.

Best regards,
Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14.17 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libhdf5-dev depends on:
ii  hdf5-helpers                1.8.8-9.1
ii  libhdf5-7 [libhdf5-7]       1.8.8-9.1
ii  libjpeg8-dev [libjpeg-dev]  8d-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g-dev                  1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

libhdf5-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libhdf5-dev suggests:
ii  libhdf5-doc  1.8.8-9.1

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