Bug#1140677: med-fichier: FTBFS against HDF5 2.1.0

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Frost a écrit le 23/08/2026 à 11:47 :
> Control: tags -1 patch
> 
> Hi Gilles,
> 
> I was looking into this yesterday/today
> I've tracked down the failures and prepared three
> patches:
> 
>    * fix the Python bindings for current SWIG/Python versions to avoid an
>      early FTBFS
>    * relax the HDF5 version compatibility check, this will fix some
>    * explicitly close the MED file in Test_MEDnStructElement, avoiding the
>      HDF5 library shutdown error with HDF5 2.1.0 (manifesting as the
>      infinite loop you've described below. (a quick $searchengine check
>      seems that this might be a bug in HDF5.)
> 
> With these patches applied, the test suite completes successfully.

Thanks for this patches. It will unblock med-fichier 4.1.0. But this is 
still a deprecated version:

https://www.salome-platform.org/?page_id=2768

> I've uploaded the packages for a testbuild to
> https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/work-request/1090706
> (ignore the FreeCAD autopkgtest failure, that's a bad newly added test)
> 
> I've also locally updated the package to upstream version 4.1.1, which is
> available and can be provided as part of the update.
> 
> As the package is currently under RFA, how would you like me to proceed?
> I can certainly add my name to Uploaders to share the load, but I have
> no experience with HDF5 ecosystem...
> 
> I'm attaching the (three) patches as a diff to the current pacakge in
> the archives.

Feel free to go ahead and upload your patched version.

I'll orphan the package really soon now.

Best,
_g.

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