Bug 1379438 - Please make h5py 2.3.1 available for epel 6
Summary: Please make h5py 2.3.1 available for epel 6
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: h5py
Version: el6
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Steve Traylen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2016-09-26 18:14 UTC by jody
Modified: 2018-05-16 23:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-16 23:39:06 UTC
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Description jody 2016-09-26 18:14:30 UTC 
Description of problem:

On epel 6, the highest version of h5py is 1.3.1, whereas on epel 7 it is 2.3.1
Can epel 6 b e updated such that h5py also has version 2.3.1?

With h5py version 1.3.1 numpy can not handle the VLEN data type,
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2016-09-26 18:26:10 UTC 
http://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/whatsnew/2.0.html#changes-which-may-break-existing-code indicates a fair amount of changes could break existing code.  EPEL strives to provide api stability, so I would say no.

There are various other ways to install alternate versions, e.g. virtualenv, conda.
Comment 2 Steve Traylen 2018-05-16 23:39:06 UTC 
Indeed epel 6 is now static. This will never happen.
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