Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas Jahns
On 03/19/14 09:51, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Do you mind to provide a proper soname and version for libaec and libsz, please? Iff its API is stable enough. That's step 0 for packaging :-) We've prepared version 0.3 which should have the desired properties:

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:16:42AM +0100, Thomas Jahns wrote: Hello, On Mar 18, 2014, at 23:54 , Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: 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. it does

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-18 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 03/03/2014 17:00, 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

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-18 Thread Thomas Jahns
Hello, On Mar 18, 2014, at 16:22 , Sylvestre Ledru wrote: If you are really interested in this change, you should propose a patch. I am not sure it is going to be fixed otherwise... as far as i can see no patch to the original packages should be needed, but someone would have to provide

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-18 Thread Gilles Filippini
Hi, Thomas Jahns a écrit , Le 18/03/2014 17:28: On Mar 18, 2014, at 16:22 , Sylvestre Ledru wrote: If you are really interested in this change, you should propose a patch. I am not sure it is going to be fixed otherwise... as far as i can see no patch to the original packages should be

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
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

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-18 Thread Thomas Jahns
Hello, On Mar 18, 2014, at 23:54 , Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: 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. it does also have its own native API, but compatibility library and

Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

2014-03-03 Thread Thomas Jahns
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