On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:12:42AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 21:15:04 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > Just to let you know that we are planning to upload a new upstream > > release of the hdf5 libraries (1.8.4 => 1.8.6). > > We will switch the API to the version 1.8 (from the 1.6). > > It might break some packages but the fix is easy (just a #define). > > We will also change the package name because it is very likely that the > > API/ABI changed... > > We are not in an hurry but it is a pretty important package [1] [2]. > > > Are any of the reverse dependencies RC buggy in sid right now (so that > they would be blocked from migrating if rebuilt)? How many of those > can't be removed in case they don't get fixed? >
Due to recent release of 1.8.7 with fixes for Fortran, I would check before if it could be feasible for Debian and do a single transition to the new version. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110515190545.gb2...@gandalf.is-a-geek.org
