Hello Francesco, Thanks for the feedback. Could you just processed with the migration practices when you update it [1] ?
I am maintaining three packages (Scilab, cgns and jhdf) which are based on this library. Thanks Sylvestre [1] http://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 à 10:57 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine a écrit : > Hi Sylvestre and all > > HDF5 has a long history of API violations even for minor revisions. That > motivated > AFAIK use of a versioned library name in the past. In 1.8 series HDF Group > finally > added an official SONAME to the libraries (C/C++/Fortran with and without > MPI). > I adopted it instead of the Debian specific SONAME and library naming. > The current package (but for latest oversight about 1.8.3->1.8.4 migration > with > the same SONAME) tries to be defensive on that regards, without sacrificing > name consistency. In fact the current HDF5 roadmap will change library source > package > names at every minor/major release (also considering that the C++ ABI > interface > could be easily broken at each update without notice) and will use virtuals > such > as libhdf5-1.8 and libhdf5-1.8.x to manage multiple MPI/serial packages and > colliding sonames. That should suffice to ensure consistency among upgrades. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
