On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Andreas Hilboll <andr...@hilboll.de> wrote: >> Actually my plan is to try to have only one HDF4 library without >> embedded netcdf: packages needing netcdf can link to the netcdf >> library. This is the same way hdf4 is packaged in Fedora. > > Great, this would make things a lot easier, I guess. All the packages > depending on libhdf4-0-alt would need to change their dependencies then > -- do you need help organizing this? I'll try writing things up later this week, but for the lib-packages I want to use the actual libnames: libdf libmfdf I guess it is probably also a good idea to rename the -dev package.
I can surely use some help or feedback on the idea. What would be most helpful is to have this tested by people who actually use netcdf and hdf4 together in one of the tools which rely on the current libhdf4. Such a test could in fact already happen by linking both libhdf4-alt and netcdf rather than libhdf4. > >> I'd like to test this approach locally after the netcdf transition. > Can you elaborate? What transition? https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/netcdf.html
