Hi all, the Debian packages for netCDF <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/> are currently at 4.1.3, a version released some three years ago <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/release-notes-4.1.3.html>. A bug report was filed against this a few months back <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735075>, but no one stepped up to the task yet.
The reason why the upgrade is not a trivial one is that the means of distribution of netCDF have changed somewhat. Fortran, C, and C++ interfaces used to be distributed in one source package "netcdf", controlled by configuration options. Now, C, Fortran, and C++ interfaces are distributed in separate source packages. The C source works standalone, Fortran and C++ versions are interface packages. The question remains on how we can move this forward in a sensible way. One possibility is to split the existing netcdf package into three separate ones netcdf-c, netcdf-fortran, netcdf-cxx, to reflect the upstream structure. What is your opinion on this? To help the process, I've integrated a number of patches to netcdf-c upstream <https://github.com/unidata/netcdf-c> that fix the build system to work properly with Debian unstable/testing. Proof-of-concept debian packaging of netcdf-c is available from <https://github.com/nschloe/netcdf-ubuntu/>, built nightly on <https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/netcdf-nightly/+packages>. Cheers, Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAK6Z60eydWNd5n1BXuifMtXbV=_zdr73q6qb+pxybuxvjvw...@mail.gmail.com