On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Johan, > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:46:48PM +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: >> I noticed that libhdf4 hasn't had an update for a while, a number of >> bugs and even a more recent release packaged in ubuntu. >> >> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhdf4/4.2r10-0ubuntu1 > > Thanks for spotting this. Hopefully you will be able to drain from this > packaging some helpful hints. I admit that I'm really concerned about > these uncoordinated effort at "third places". Please invite the > maintainer of this package to work together with us in Debian GIS > repository. When you do so please make pretty clear that his work will > be regarded nicely and I'm volunteering to sponsor his work to the > official Debian mirror. >
Actually the package was made by a debian developer (doko), after sending different patches to the bug tracker.He did actually write a bug report to inform that a new version was there. I think the main interest of ubuntu was having arm64 ready, I can understand at some point you prefer packaging yourself than keeping up with debian maintainers who don't reply...
