Package: hdfview Version: 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1 Severity: important The current version of hdfview does not show the content of any of my HDF5 files.
Downgrading to the 2.9-3+b2 version of libjhdf{4,5}-{java, jni}, which also installs libhdf5-8 version 1.8.13+docs-15, seems to fix the issue for me, even if hdfview is kept at the 2.11 version. This seems to suggest that the problem lies in libjhdf rather than in hdfview itself, and/or in the API of libhdf5 used by jhdf. FWIW, a similar bug seems to affect also jhdf 2.9-5 as found in Ubuntu, which is using libhdf5-10 (1.8.16), which would further support the idea of a breaking API change between version 1.8.13 and 1.8.16 of libhdf5. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages hdfview depends on: ii default-jre 2:1.8-58 ii java-wrappers 0.1.28 ii libjgraph-java 5.12.4.2+dfsg-5 ii libjhdf4-java 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1 ii libjhdf5-java 2.11.0+dfsg-2+b1 ii libslf4j-java 1.7.22-1 hdfview recommends no packages. Versions of packages hdfview suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 55.0.2883.75-6 ii dillo [www-browser] 3.0.5-3 ii elinks [www-browser] 0.12~pre6-12 ii firefox [www-browser] 51.0-1 ii iceape [www-browser] 2.7.12-1+b1 ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:16.08.3-1 ii links2 [www-browser] 2.14-2 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1 ii netsurf-fb [www-browser] 3.6-3 ii opera [www-browser] 12.16.1860 ii surf [www-browser] 0.7-2 ii vivaldi-snapshot [www-browser] 1.7.735.11-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-34 -- no debconf information