Dear RMs and interested maintainers (in Bcc) What follows is the list of netcdf build-depending packages currently in the archive. The netcdf4 package is available in experimental since a while and currently at RC3 stage. It will be released quite soon and appears in good shape for Debian, after some fixes already merged upstream. It builds everywhere and pass unit tests as expected.
The netcdf4 library series extends version 3, but retains also the previous API, so no unexpected breakages should be present. Anyway, it is much safe doing our home work and try buildings with the new version in experimental by explicitly specifying libnetcdf-dev (>= 1:4.0.0) in debian/control. Ideally, a simple binNMUs will suffice in sid to ensure a smooth transition, after this pre-check in experimental. And it will allow a few new packages to enter finally the archive, due to their strict dependency on version 4.x Interested packages: v-sim (Debian Science Team <[email protected]>) vtk (A. Maitland Bottoms <[email protected]>) libmesh (Debian Scientific Computing Team <[email protected]>) deal.ii (Adam C. Powell, IV <[email protected]>) octave-octcdf (Debian Octave Group <[email protected]>) dx (Daniel Kobras <[email protected]>) libpdl-netcdf-perl (Henning Glawe <[email protected]>) nco (Charlie Zender <[email protected]>) gri (Peter S Galbraith <[email protected]>) gerris (Debian Science Maintainers <[email protected]>) magics++ (Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]>) gnudatalanguage (Gürkan Sengün <[email protected]>) kst (Mark Hymers <[email protected]>) gmt (Debian GIS Project <[email protected]>) python-scientific (Matthias Klose <[email protected]>) grads (Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]>) labplot (Helen Faulkner <[email protected]>) gdal (Debian GIS Project <[email protected]>) grace (Nicholas Breen <[email protected]>) ncview (Debian GIS Project <[email protected]>) minc (Debian-Med Packaging Team <[email protected]>) cdo (Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]>) As always, if RMs or others had something to say about/against this mini-transition, please speak now :-) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100403130917.ga12...@mithrandir
