Bug#1140677: med-fichier: FTBFS against HDF5 2.1.0

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Frost a écrit le 23/08/2026 à 11:47 :

Control: tags -1 patch

Hi Gilles,

I was looking into this yesterday/today
I've tracked down the failures and prepared three
patches:

   * fix the Python bindings for current SWIG/Python versions to avoid an
     early FTBFS
   * relax the HDF5 version compatibility check, this will fix some
   * explicitly close the MED file in Test_MEDnStructElement, avoiding the
     HDF5 library shutdown error with HDF5 2.1.0 (manifesting as the
     infinite loop you've described below. (a quick $searchengine check
     seems that this might be a bug in HDF5.)

With these patches applied, the test suite completes successfully.

https://www.salome-platform.org/?page_id=2768

Thanks for this patches. It will unblock med-fichier 4.1.0. But this is still a deprecated version:

I've uploaded the packages for a testbuild to
https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/work-request/1090706
(ignore the FreeCAD autopkgtest failure, that's a bad newly added test)

I've also locally updated the package to upstream version 4.1.1, which is
available and can be provided as part of the update.

As the package is currently under RFA, how would you like me to proceed?
I can certainly add my name to Uploaders to share the load, but I have
no experience with HDF5 ecosystem...

I'm attaching the (three) patches as a diff to the current pacakge in
the archives.

Feel free to go ahead and upload your patched version.

I'll orphan the package really soon now.

Best,
_g.

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