Hi all, I've spent some time trying to update HDF4 a while ago, and I am picking it up again now.
I've basically changed the packaging a lot so we now can use quilt for patches that apply to both versions of the library, so the build system is now a lot less weird than it used to be. I'm still wondering what I should do with the documentation. That is currenltly packaged as uuencoded files in the debian dir. I was wondering what I should do: * update the files and add them to debian/copyright * remove the files and so remove the hdf4-docs package The documentation can be downloaded at: https://www.hdfgroup.org/release4/doc/index.html There are still a lot of lintian issues in the package, but rather than trying to fixing all of them now I think it is better to upload the current package rather fast (to experimental, hdf4 tends to fail on at least one architecture): I have some more drastic changes in mind which may be a better time to cover the remaining errors: currently the package builds to versions of the hdf4 library: one with netcdf support (an ancient version) and one without (libhdf-alt). Since we have netcdf in a different package, I think we could do with just a version without netcdf: packages which need netcdf can link to the netcdf package. This is the same way hdf4 is packaged in fedora. Kind Regards, Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cajop35miof_i0uezd65em5_6xmzzws2dyr1kstr076luy3d...@mail.gmail.com
