[Pkg-octave-devel] HDF5 transition

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi,

As you have probably seen, we are concerned by the HDF5 transition
[1,2].

I have already pushed the relevant changes for our new octave (3.4)
package, so that package will be fixed by the next upload.

Concerning the old octave3.2* packages, it is unfortunately not possible
to solve the problem via a binNMU (because octave3.2 depends on arch:all
octave3.2-common = ${source:Version}, and because octave3.2-headers has
a dependency on the old libhdf5-serial-dev). I therefore attach a patch
that makes octave3.2* depend on the new HDF5 (I didn't push it to git
since we don't have an octave3.2 branch). Thomas: please do the upload
when you have the time, since I don't have upload rights on that
package.

The other affected packages are:

 * dynare
 * octave-sundials
 * octave-sp
 * octave-plplot
 * octave-pfstools
 * octave-ftp
 * octave-fixed
 * octave-communications
 * octave-biosig

A binNMU should be enough to fix these. But before asking wanna-build,
we should wait for the fixed octave3.2 to be uploaded.

Note that the list of affected packages available on [2] is partially
incorrect. Some packages are not listed on [2] because they do not
build-depend on libhdf5-serial-dev, yet the resulting binary packages
depend on HDF5. Conversely, octave-{bim,msh} are listed on [2] but they
are not affected: they build-depend on libhdf5-openmpi-dev in order to
solve #639186 and #639187, but the resulting binary packages do not
(directly) depend on HDF5.

Best,

[1]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=631019#105
[2] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/hdf5.html

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