Bug#1058621: netcdf: Finalize HDF5 library at exit

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> [2023-12-13 18:37]:

> On 12/13/23 17:52, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The patch is added in git.

Thanks for that. I apologize for proposing that useless merge request. I 
did it before noticing that the patch has been added to the repository.

> I'm going to wait at least for #2827 to get merged, as there might be 
> further changes.

This is a wise decision. Indeed, there is an ongoing discussion between 
one of the upstream author and the patch's author. They seem to disagree 
on the proposed fix.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière