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HDF5 status

One of the most relevant transition for squeeze is related to the HDF5 library. Upstream 1.6 branch is now dropped in favor of 1.8. HDF group had not a past history of friendliness towards packagers needs. The 1.8.x branch has still a series of open issues ATM.

Relevant list threads:

• http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2009-March/003383.html

• http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2009-June/003443.html

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519575

• http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2009-June/005403.html

Proposed solutions:

• Multiple flavors with different library (S0)names, but conflicting -dev packages.
• MPI support still open.
• Removing thread-safety against C++/Fortran bindings limitations and leave users to their dooms.
• Fixing/verifying multi-threading?

Final result:

• Removed limitation in mixing thread-safe option and multiple bindings. Added a note in the README file to warn users against use of C++/Fortran bindings within multi-threading programs.
• Still conflicting -dev packages.