Bug#853750: hdfview: HDF5 files appear empty

2019-10-27 Thread Chris Billington 
A further update, the Arch Linux AUR package is now building HDFView 3.1
successfully. I'm using it on Arch and it works. If Debian wants to
replicate this for their package, see the build script here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=hdfview

The AUR package patches HDFview's build.xml file to unbundle java from the
resulting package and to remove what looks like a workaround for incorrect
library filenames that is not relevant on Arch. This may or may not be
identical on Debian, but may be a useful starting point for anyone wanting
to solve this bug.

Bug#853750: hdfview: HDF5 files appear empty

2017-09-04 Thread Sergey Spiridonov 
Package: hdfview
Version: 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #853750

Hi! Just wonder, why the bug severity is "important" and not "grave" or
"critical". Hdfview is not working at all!

If package released in "stable" stretch, it is expected to work somehow,
isn't it?
Debian is famous for its stability, so removing non-working package is
better than keeping completely broken one... It took me some time to
realize that Debian released completely non-working package.

Removing the broken package will save time to others.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages hdfview depends on:
ii  default-jre 2:1.8-58
ii  java-wrappers   0.1.28
ii  libjgraph-java  5.12.4.2+dfsg-5
ii  libjhdf4-java   2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libjhdf5-java   2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libslf4j-java   1.7.22-1

hdfview recommends no packages.

Versions of packages hdfview suggests:
ii  firefox-esr [www-browser]  52.3.0esr-1~deb9u1
ii  w3m [www-browser]  0.5.3-34

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Bug#853750: hdfview: HDF5 files appear empty

2017-05-31 Thread Mark Hymers 
On Tue, 31, Jan, 2017 at 04:27:12PM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta spoke thus..
> Package: hdfview
> Version: 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> The current version of hdfview does not show the content of any of my
> HDF5 files.
> 
> Downgrading to the 2.9-3+b2 version of libjhdf{4,5}-{java, jni}, which
> also installs libhdf5-8 version 1.8.13+docs-15, seems to fix the issue
> for me, even if hdfview is kept at the 2.11 version. This seems to
> suggest that the problem lies in libjhdf rather than in hdfview itself,
> and/or in the API of libhdf5 used by jhdf.
> 
> FWIW, a similar bug seems to affect also jhdf 2.9-5 as found in Ubuntu,
> which is using libhdf5-10 (1.8.16), which would further support the idea
> of a breaking API change between version 1.8.13 and 1.8.16 of libhdf5.

I've been looking into this.  It appears that between HDF5-1.8 and
HDF5-1.10, the size of object identifiers was changed from 32- to
64-bit.

Unfortunately, by the HDF group's own admission, there is no version
of hdfview (and presumably the java libraries it comes with) which has
been updated for this.  See https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/java/

Unless someone can suggest a solution, I suspect that this bug needs
to be upgraded to release-critical as it makes the package completely
useless.

Thanks,

Mark

-- 
Mark Hymers 

"Everyone is entitled to be stupid but some abuse the privilege."
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Bug#853750: hdfview: HDF5 files appear empty

2017-01-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta 
Package: hdfview
Version: 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
Severity: important

The current version of hdfview does not show the content of any of my
HDF5 files.

Downgrading to the 2.9-3+b2 version of libjhdf{4,5}-{java, jni}, which
also installs libhdf5-8 version 1.8.13+docs-15, seems to fix the issue
for me, even if hdfview is kept at the 2.11 version. This seems to
suggest that the problem lies in libjhdf rather than in hdfview itself,
and/or in the API of libhdf5 used by jhdf.

FWIW, a similar bug seems to affect also jhdf 2.9-5 as found in Ubuntu,
which is using libhdf5-10 (1.8.16), which would further support the idea
of a breaking API change between version 1.8.13 and 1.8.16 of libhdf5.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages hdfview depends on:
ii  default-jre 2:1.8-58
ii  java-wrappers   0.1.28
ii  libjgraph-java  5.12.4.2+dfsg-5
ii  libjhdf4-java   2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libjhdf5-java   2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libslf4j-java   1.7.22-1

hdfview recommends no packages.

Versions of packages hdfview suggests:
ii  chromium [www-browser]  55.0.2883.75-6
ii  dillo [www-browser] 3.0.5-3
ii  elinks [www-browser]0.12~pre6-12
ii  firefox [www-browser]   51.0-1
ii  iceape [www-browser]2.7.12-1+b1
ii  konqueror [www-browser] 4:16.08.3-1
ii  links2 [www-browser]2.14-2
ii  lynx [www-browser]  2.8.9dev11-1
ii  netsurf-fb [www-browser]3.6-3
ii  opera [www-browser] 12.16.1860
ii  surf [www-browser]  0.7-2
ii  vivaldi-snapshot [www-browser]  1.7.735.11-1
ii  w3m [www-browser]   0.5.3-34

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