Bug#796745: possibly build additional hdf4-tools-alt (without netcdf support)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Andreas Hilboll <andreas at hilboll.de> wrote:
> Package: hdf4-tools
> Version: 4.2r10-0ubuntu1
>
> hdf4-tools depends on libhdf4-0.  However, libhdf4-0 conflicts with
> libhdf4-0-alt, which in turn is a dependency of libgdal0 and others.
>
> Would it be possible to provide a hdf4-tools-alt package depending on
> libhdf4-0-alt, without the HDF4-netcdf support?
Actually my plan is to try to have only one HDF4 library without
embedded netcdf: packages needing netcdf can link to the netcdf
library. This is the same way hdf4 is packaged in Fedora.

I'd like to test this approach locally after the netcdf transition. In
the meantime I will already upload the hdf4 4.2.11 package currently
in git.