Hi Bas,

Are we proceeding with the netcdf transition?
As of now, this would need to be built in experimental (I have done so
and it works).
Should we upload netcdf 4.4.0 to unstable? I would be in favour of this,
but we should probably checking with the release managers.

regards
Alastair


On 28/07/2015 14:52, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> Package: magics++
> Version: 2.24.7-3
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: netcdf-split-c-f-cxx
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> For the upcoming netcdf transition your package needs a build dependency
> on libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev to build successfully with the netcdf
> packages in experimental.
>
> The attached patch adds the build dependency for magics++ (2.24.7-3).
>
> Since NetCDF 4.3.3.1 the upstream developers have split the project into
> language specific releases, the netcdf Debian package has likewise split
> into language specific source packages:
>
> ┌─────────────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
> │ NetCDF project      │ Source package    │ -dev package             │
> ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
> │ NetCDF-C            │ netcdf            │ libnetcdf-dev            │
> │ NetCDF C++ (cxx4)   │ netcdf-cxx        │ libnetcdf-c++4-dev       │
> │ NetCDF C++ (legacy) │ netcdf-cxx-legacy │ libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev │
> │ NetCDF-Fortran      │ netcdf-fortran    │ libnetcdff-dev           │
> └─────────────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
>
> The netcdf-cxx provides the new NetCDF 4 C++ API in libnetcdf_c++4.so.1,
> and netcdf-cxx-legacy the legacy NetCDF 3 C++ API in libnetcdf_c++.so.4.
>
> For more information about the different NetCDF C++ APIs, see:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-cxx/index.jsp
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas

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