Hi Johan, Thanks for your work on HDF4.
On 06/23/2015 05:21 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > 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 I'm not sure how valuable including the documentation is. In the age of HDF5 it may not be worth the effort to update this for HDF4. > 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. Assuming there are no lintian errors the above sounds reasonable. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
