[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#545818: Bug#545818: where's `ncdump-hdf', anyway?
Francesco P. Lovergine
frankie at debian.org
Wed Sep 9 11:31:55 UTC 2009
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:07:14PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Package: hdf4-tools
> Version: 4.2r4-5
>
> The libhdf4g-run package, which hdf4-tools is, IIUC, intended to
> replace, contained the `ncdump-hdf' and `ncgen-hdf' programs,
> which allowed easy transformation of the data between HDF4 and a
> certain ASCII representation. However, these programs were, for
> a reason unknown to me, excluded from hdf4-tools, and it seems
> that no comparable replacement was provided.
>
> For example, as of this hdf4-tools version, there's no easy way
> to list the ``contents'' of an HDF4 file (field names,
> dimensions, attributes) -- the information that has proven to be
> vital for everyday use. Formely, it could be done with, say:
>
> $ ncdump-hdf -h FILE.hdf | less
>
> One of the 4.1st versions of the package that I have the sources
> to had the following in the Debian .diff.gz:
>
> $ zcat pool/main/libh/libhdf4/libhdf4_4.1r4-22.diff.gz
> ...
> --- libhdf4-4.1r4.orig/debian/rules
> +++ libhdf4-4.1r4/debian/rules
> @@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
> ...
> +binary-run:
> ...
> + # Rename ncgen and ncdump
> + mv debian/tmp-run/usr/bin/ncgen{,-hdf}
> + mv debian/tmp-run/usr/bin/ncdump{,-hdf}
> ...
> $
>
> The 4.2r4-5 has instead:
>
> $ zcat pool/main/libh/libhdf4/libhdf4_4.2r4-5.diff.gz
> --- libhdf4-4.2r4.orig/debian/rules
> +++ libhdf4-4.2r4/debian/rules
> @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
> ...
> +stamps/install-stamp: build-arch
> ...
> + # remove programs and manpages provided by netcdf-bin
> + rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ncdump $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ncgen
> + rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man1/ncdump* $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man1/ncgen*
> +
> ...
> $
>
> The comment provided is, to the best of my knowledge, wrong: the
> versions of these programs provided by netcdf-bin are for NetCDF
> files only, and have no relation (except of the one of the
> ``ancestry'' character) to HDF4.
>
> Please consider bringing ncdump-hdf and ncgen-hdf back to the
> Debian package.
>
> TIA.
>
True, it needs a fix.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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