[Pkg-octave-devel] liboctave-dev insists on serial version of the hdf5 library

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-14 09:53]:
>> To summarize, my feeling is that allowing the co-instability of
>> liboctave-dev with all 3 versions of HDF5 brings clear advantages (less
>> co-instability issues) and at the same time it won't break anything for
>> people using the serial HDF5 version. People wanting to use the parallel
>> versions will be allowed to do so; in the worst case they could be hit
>> by the partial ABI-incompatibility, but it is still better than the
>> current situation where we just forbid them from using the parallel
>> version.
>
> I agree with your conclusion.  What should we do now? Fill the RC bug
> report and go ahead with the change in the master branch?

I am not sure this issue is of RC severity, in my view it is even of
wishlist severity.

I would rather directly file a bug against release.debian.org asking for
pre-approval, using the text that you wrote and attaching the patch.
Then, if the Release Team agrees, we commit to master and upload to
unstable.

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