Charlie Zender writes: > Hi, > > It sounds like Dave proposes some updates to the netcdf package. > This would be great as it is not actively maintained. > Our NCO project has debs which adhere to recent Debian policy. > Rorik Peterson wrote most of this support. > However, NCO depends on netcdf version 3.6.0 so we have been > unable to build our packages for well over a year because the > netcdf deb is version 3.5.1, as you can see here > > http://nco.sf.net#debian > > So if you do update netcdf to 3.6.0, > then we will be one of your major customers. Actually you should > go the whole way and update to 3.6.1 which supports newer > netCDF file types.
I didn't see 3.6.1 announced. I'm not doing that re-packaging/upload. I did offer to sponsor such a package, if a Debian maintainer is needed to upload the package. > > maybe converting to debhelper and adding f90 support. > > I would prefer g95 over gfortran because g95 is useful for > real science now. yes, if you consider moving netcdf to non-free, then it might be possible. Does this hold for gfortran-4.1 (from experimental) as well? > Please ping me if you ever do update netcdf and we will beta-test > that your build works by trying to build NCO packages off it. > > P.S. The Unidata udunits package has a similar structure to netcdf > and I encourage you to try packaging if you have success with netcdf. again, I was asking for somebody else to package that ;-) Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
