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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 03/03/2014 17:00, Thomas Jahns wrote:
> 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.
>
If you are really interested in this change, you should propose a patch.
I am not sure it is going to be fixed otherwise...

Cheers,
Sylvestre