[aur-requests] [PRQ#35138] Deletion Request for python2-h5py

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Tue Jun 7 15:08:22 UTC 2022


MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-h5py [2]:

Tried to revive this from 2019, to help some old Python 2 based
astronomy packages get back to life. But it is broken beyond repair,
the HDF5 scientific data format library has changed its C API headers
so much that it is impossible to make this old v2.10 version work
without significant engineering effort (which it seems neither the
HDF5 project maintainers opted to do, nor any community developers on
GitHub).

So this package is not worth keeping. Neither the old Arch Linux
archive
version works, nor the new rebuild.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python2-h5py/


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