Bug 1771888

It seems like the problem has been fixed in newer 3.x hdfview releases [0], not sure if it has been backported to 2.14 though...

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhdf/+bug/1696456

I can confirm that opening 'h5ex_d_alloc.h5' [0] using hdhview 3.1.0 installed from official HDF Group builds (HDFView-3.1.0-centos7_64.tar.gz) [1] works ok on RHEL 7 and Fedora 31.

[0] https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/files/exbyapi/h5ex_d_alloc.h5
[1] https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/

Unfortunately, updating to the new release is not trivial. Please see 1797361.

(In reply to Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) from comment #3)
> Unfortunately, updating to the new release is not trivial. Please see
> 1797361.

OK, I see.

As the package is pretty useless in its current state, perhaps it would be better to retire it?

If we can't fix it, it'll get retired automatically.

Here's what needs to be done:

- the new version requires netcdf-java which isn't in Fedora at the moment
- netcdf-java uses gradle to build, but gradle isn't in Fedora at the moment
- gradle is a mammoth task to build: it uses groovy and koitlin etc. a discussion on the devel list suggests that this is not currently manageable: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RUMUORRTAGTYXUZXZYS23562Q55EHXDM/#57RTE4UGO7LUI7RY7QFKENP7HRUNLZZU
- so, the alternative is to manually write maven pom files for netcdf-java from the gradle build scripts so that it can be built using maven (in general, this is the suggestion for anything that uses gradle).

So, we simply need some time to do the work, but none of us seem to have the required free time to do it at the moment. We're busy fixing the other FTBFS bugs for the Fedora 32 release. Maybe when that's been done, we'll be able to give this task the time it needs.

- note: it *may* be possible to carry a bundled version of netcdf-java temporarily, but we'll have to discuss whether this can be done. (the guidelines no longer forbid bundling)

Help is always welcome, if anyone else wants to give it a go.

Cheers,

This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora.
Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

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