Hi,

During a test rebuild of HDF5's reverse dependcies against HDF5 2.1.0
currently in experimental, silo-llnl FTBFS with:

silo_hdf5.c: In function 'db_hdf5_init':
silo_hdf5.c:961:60: error: passing argument 5 of 'db_hdf5_put_cmemb' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
  961 |         db_hdf5_put_cmemb(_mt, #NAME, OFFSET(_m, NAME), 1, &_size, _tmp_m);   \
      |                                                            ^~~~~~
      |                                                            |
      |                                                            hsize_t * {aka long unsigned int *}
silo_hdf5.c:2202:9: note: in expansion of macro 'MEMBER_3'
 2202 |         MEMBER_3(double,        min_extents);
      |         ^~~~~~~~
silo_hdf5.c:1940:41: note: expected 'const int *' but argument is of type 'hsize_t *' {aka 'long unsigned int *'}
 1940 |                   int ndims, int const *dim, hid_t type)
      |                              ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
silo_hdf5.c:963:54: error: passing argument 5 of 'db_hdf5_put_cmemb' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
  963 |             db_hdf5_put_cmemb(_ft, #NAME, _f_off, 1, &_size, _tmp_f);         \
      |                                                      ^~~~~~
      |                                                      |
      |                                                      hsize_t * {aka long unsigned int *}
silo_hdf5.c:2202:9: note: in expansion of macro 'MEMBER_3'
 2202 |         MEMBER_3(double,        min_extents);
      |         ^~~~~~~~
silo_hdf5.c:1940:41: note: expected 'const int *' but argument is of type 'hsize_t *' {aka 'long unsigned int *'}
 1940 |                   int ndims, int const *dim, hid_t type)
      |                              ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~

It seems the source tree has to be adapted to support this new major release of HDF5.

Thanks,
_g.


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Gilles Filippini a écrit le 09/06/2026 à 14:38 :
Please review the attached patch.

Best,
_g.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
silo-llnl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1139553@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> (supplier of updated silo-llnl package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:42:17 +0100
Source: silo-llnl
Binary: libsilo-bin libsilo-bin-dbgsym libsilo-dev libsiloh5-412 libsiloh5-412-dbgsym python3-silo python3-silo-dbgsym
Architecture: source arm64
Version: 4.12.1~pre2-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
Description:
 libsilo-bin - Utilities to manipulate libsilo files
 libsilo-dev - Development files for SILO Scientific I/O library from LLNL
 libsiloh5-412 - SILO Science I/O library from LLNL
 python3-silo - Python3 interface to the SILO Scientific I/O library
Closes: 1139553
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 .
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   * Drop kfreebsd
   * Drop X-Python3-Version
   * Use pre-computed DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.4
   * Drop Priority: optional from source in d/control per new policy
   * d/gbp.conf: pristine-tar=True
   * Make d/copyright machine-readable
   * d/*install: Drop leading /
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