Bug#1058621: netcdf: Finalize HDF5 library at exit

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 + patch

I just created a merge request for fixing the current bug: 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/netcdf/-/merge_requests/2

Best,

Rafael

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> [2023-12-13 17:52]:

> Source: netcdf
> Version: 1:4.9.2-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> Control: block 1057590 by -1
>
> Bug#1057590 has been recently filed against the octave-netcdf package, 
> which currently FTBFS. This bug is exposed at the end of the Octave 
> session where the binding functions for the netcdf library are used, 
> causing a segmentation fault.
>
> The bug has been forwarded upstream [1]. The upstream author of 
> octave-netcdf, John Donoghue, discovered that the problem is not caused 
> by the netcdf package nor by Octave itself, but is rather a problem 
> within the netcdf library, in the way the HDF5 support is unloaded. He 
> proposed a patch to the upstream authors of the netcdf library [2]. It 
> would be great if that patch can be integrated to the netcdf package for 
> Debian.
>
> I confirm that the patch fixes the segfault problem of octave-netcdf and 
> that the netcdf package builds correctly with it.
>
> I am hereby setting the severity level to "important", since the bug here 
> reported is blocking Bug#1057590, which has severity level "serious". 
> Please feel free to change the severity level to whatever you see fit.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafael Laboissière
>
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64999 
> [2] https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2827
>