Bug#740613: libhdf5-7: Please include support for compression with libaec

[Thomas Jahns]

Package: libhdf5-7
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer(s),

since SZIP is essentially non-free, although the corresponding patents are no
longer, and our share-holders wanted to use it in other libraries (libcdi) for
another file format (GRIB), DKRZ provides a free implementation of the same
algorithms at [1]. We'd like to see the library get used more widely.

Regards, Thomas Jahns

[1] https://www.dkrz.de/redmine/projects/aec/wiki/Downloads



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