Re: libhdf4

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Johan,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 06:48:28PM +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> > Thanks for spotting this. Hopefully you will be able to drain from this
> > packaging some helpful hints. I admit that I'm really concerned about
> > these uncoordinated effort at "third places". Please invite the
> > maintainer of this package to work together with us in Debian GIS
> > repository. When you do so please make pretty clear that his work will
> > be regarded nicely and I'm volunteering to sponsor his work to the
> > official Debian mirror.
> >
> 
> Actually the package was made by a debian developer (doko), after sending
> different patches to the bug tracker.He did actually write a bug report to
> inform that a new version was there.

To bad that we have given doko another reason to claim that teams in
general are non-functional. :-(

> I think the main interest of ubuntu was having arm64 ready, I can
> understand at some point you prefer packaging yourself than keeping up with
> debian maintainers who don't reply...

Yes.  I really hope that we will perform better in the future.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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