Closing this premature RM bug for med-fichier as it obviously needs further discussion.
_g.

Gilles Filippini a écrit le 23/06/2026 à 22:25 :
Hi Tobias,

Tobias Frost a écrit le 23/06/2026 à 21:28 :
Hi Gilles

thanks for reaching out.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 09:12:50PM +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote:
Source: freecad
Version: 1.1.1+dfsg-2
Severity: important

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Hi,

I'd like to RM[1] med-ficier as its current version in unstable / testing
is not maintained anymore, and the new major release does not seem ready
for packaging.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1139324

This could be done using these cmake flags:

     -DBUILD_FEM:BOOL=OFF \
     -DBUILD_BIM:BOOL=OFF \
     -DBUILD_MESH_PART:BOOL=OFF \
     -DBUILD_FLAT_MESH:BOOL=OFF \
     -DBUILD_OPENSCAD:BOOL=OFF \

Disabling those workbenches would be a major regression, those are
important parts of FreeCAD… Indeed, that would cripple FreeCAD...

I can understand that. I was surprised to have to disable all these features just to drop the Salome meshing format.

Please close your RM bug.

I opened this RM bug because I thought there wasn't any reverse dependency. I didn't find any actually. My search request was wrong obviously. Sorry about that.

med-fichier 4.1.0 is not compatible with HDF5 > 1.10 and I've had to fiddle with its source code to circumvent their HDF5 version checks in order to keep it into Debian along HDF5 1.14.

I reached med-fichier's upstream in 2024 and they told me about a 5.0.2 release for HDF5 1.12 and a future 6.0.0 supporting HDF5 1.14.

I gave up after a look at a 5.0.2 source tarball they gave me which supported HDF5 1.12 only while I was already working on HDF5 1.14.

I won't spend more of my spare time on this package. Do you want to maintain it? You would be welcome. Please tell me.

Thanks,
_g.

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