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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-14 11:34]:

> 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 say it is at least of normal severity, since there is a
regression from squeeze.

> 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.

Ok, I will file the bug report later today.
 
Rafael