Update of HDF5 and hdfview in Bionic

[Markus Johann Schmidt]

Dear Robie,

I would like to ask if there is a possibility for the HDF libraries to
be backported (so my point 2 of my preceding mail?

Best regards,
Markus

On 12.09.19 12:43, Markus Johann Schmidt wrote:
> Dear Robie,
>
> thank you for your response. According to the document, I come to the
> following conclusion:
>
> 1) Package hdfview (and related)
>
> Severe regression - needs update / removal: The program is not able to
> load *any* HDF files, makes it basically useless.
>
>
> 2) Package libhdf5-100 (and related)
>
> Potential problem with user data - update desireable: Even though the
> version of the packages in bionic (1.10.0-patch1) does not delete any
> user data, in a multi OS environment the Ubuntu bionic users might be
> unable to read/write/modify data from other users with a higher version
> of the libraries (> 1.10.3). The HDF Group (authors of the library)
> stresses at least to use version 1.10.4. Packages in this version are
> avaible starting with disco and could be backported.
>
>
> I have no experience with packaging, but am willing to help.
>
> Best Markus
>
> On 11.09.19 22:02, Robie Basak wrote:
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:07:28PM +0200, Markus Johann Schmidt wrote:
>>> I would like to discuss the update of the HDF5 libraries and the HDF
>>> Viewer in Bionic.
>> Thank you for caring about the state of these libraries in Ubuntu!
>>
>> Please start by reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>>
>> If after that you think that the updates you request are still
>> justified, then we'll need someone to volunteer to drive the updates by
>> following the Procedure documented on that page.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> Robie

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