I contacted the HDF Group today and asked for a fix. Perhaps you can do the same:
https://www.hdfgroup.org/contact-us/ ** Tags added: bionic cosmic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1696456 Title: HDF5 files appear empty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhdf/+bug/1696456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs