On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 04:26:11PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > Greetings, > > I was recently bitten by this bug again. HDF5 has had the new API for > almost 3 years. This is getting a bit ridiculous. It is time for > Debian to use the new API. From > > http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html > > For new code development, The HDF Group recommends use of the > compatibility macro mapped to the latest version of the function. > > Debian is making it impossible to use this compatibility macro. If > you download HDF5 from the net and build software against it using the > recommended API, it will not then build against the Debian version. > > In addition, it seems that there is an easy workaround for people who > want to use the old API, but there is no easy workaround for people > using the new API. > > So pretty please, with sugar on top, change the default API. >
This is something which can be considered for squeeze+1: at that point hopefully none will use still the 1.6 interface without pre-checking or using useful wrappers. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
