[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#429533: Bug#429533: dev package changes and its severity

[Domenico Andreoli]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:17:02PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,

hi,

> I've browsed through the bug logs, but this is ugly.

yes, it is

> We're breaking all those APIs, and there is no sane way of finding out
> what to use.

we? who? breaking those APIs? it is only a matter of fixing the already
broken library name used to link with programs. i don't see anything broken.

> Also, please keep the severity of those bugreports to 'grave', since
> they cause FTBFS on all the other packages.

if those packages used the right library name, they would not be
interested by this change.

> I am wondering why libboost needs to be special-cased to especially
> supply a '-st' version.  Why not force everyone to use '-mt'?

special-cased respect who?

to not be special case, the single thread would not have the -st and
the multi thread would have the -mt. which is the countrary of what
you are asking. that is the reason of my change.

ciao
domenico

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