On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Thomas Jahns wrote: > Package: libhdf5-7 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer(s), > > since SZIP is essentially non-free, although the corresponding patents are no > longer, and our share-holders wanted to use it in other libraries (libcdi) for > another file format (GRIB), DKRZ provides a free implementation of the same > algorithms at [1]. We'd like to see the library get used more widely. > > Regards, Thomas Jahns > > [1] https://www.dkrz.de/redmine/projects/aec/wiki/Downloads >
But for packaging of libaec, it seems to me that it does not provide the same API of szip, so a specific support is required in HDF5 at upstream level. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
