Dear Robie, I would like to ask if there is a possibility for the HDF libraries to be backported (so my point 2 of my preceding mail?
Best regards, Markus On 12.09.19 12:43, Markus Johann Schmidt wrote: > Dear Robie, > > thank you for your response. According to the document, I come to the > following conclusion: > > 1) Package hdfview (and related) > > Severe regression - needs update / removal: The program is not able to > load *any* HDF files, makes it basically useless. > > > 2) Package libhdf5-100 (and related) > > Potential problem with user data - update desireable: Even though the > version of the packages in bionic (1.10.0-patch1) does not delete any > user data, in a multi OS environment the Ubuntu bionic users might be > unable to read/write/modify data from other users with a higher version > of the libraries (> 1.10.3). The HDF Group (authors of the library) > stresses at least to use version 1.10.4. Packages in this version are > avaible starting with disco and could be backported. > > > I have no experience with packaging, but am willing to help. > > Best Markus > > On 11.09.19 22:02, Robie Basak wrote: >> Hi Markus, >> >> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:07:28PM +0200, Markus Johann Schmidt wrote: >>> I would like to discuss the update of the HDF5 libraries and the HDF >>> Viewer in Bionic. >> Thank you for caring about the state of these libraries in Ubuntu! >> >> Please start by reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates >> >> If after that you think that the updates you request are still >> justified, then we'll need someone to volunteer to drive the updates by >> following the Procedure documented on that page. >> >> Hope that helps! >> >> Robie -- ETH Zurich Markus Schmidt Institute of Fluid Dynamics ML H54 Sonneggstrasse 3 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone +41 44 632 61 03 Fax +41 44 632 11 47 schmidt@ifd.mavt.ethz.ch www.ifd.mavt.ethz.ch -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
