Source: netcdf Version: 1:4.9.2-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Control: block 1057590 by -1
Bug#1057590 has been recently filed against the octave-netcdf package, which currently FTBFS. This bug is exposed at the end of the Octave session where the binding functions for the netcdf library are used, causing a segmentation fault. The bug has been forwarded upstream [1]. The upstream author of octave-netcdf, John Donoghue, discovered that the problem is not caused by the netcdf package nor by Octave itself, but is rather a problem within the netcdf library, in the way the HDF5 support is unloaded. He proposed a patch to the upstream authors of the netcdf library [2]. It would be great if that patch can be integrated to the netcdf package for Debian. I confirm that the patch fixes the segfault problem of octave-netcdf and that the netcdf package builds correctly with it. I am hereby setting the severity level to "important", since the bug here reported is blocking Bug#1057590, which has severity level "serious". Please feel free to change the severity level to whatever you see fit. Best, Rafael Laboissière [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64999 [2] https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2827
