[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473973: libboost-python-dev: rdeps fails to built - python packaging seems weird

Sune Vuorela reportbug at pusling.com
Wed Apr 2 12:21:17 UTC 2008


Package: libboost-python-dev
Version: 1.34.1-8
Severity: serious
Justification: packaging on crack

Hi!

Looking at the newer boost-python-dev packages, I see tihs:

$ dpkg -L libboost-python-dev | grep /usr/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1-py24.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1-py25.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1-py24.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1-py25.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-py25.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-py25.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1-py25.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-py24.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-py24.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1-py24.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-py25.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-py25.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1-py25.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-py24.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-py24.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1-py24.so


In the earlier versions (-7), it was this:
$dpkg -L libboost-python-dev | grep /usr/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python.so
/usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1.so

Now - anything that tries linking with -lpython_boost or
-lpython_boost-mt fails.
In kdeedu, boost is just considered unavailable.


Why aren't there default python symlinks ?  (You seem to have created
compability symlinks for the existing binaries:
$ ls -la /usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.so.1.34.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr  2 14:09 /usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1.so.1.34.1 -> libboost_python-gcc42-mt-1_34_1-py24.so.1.34.1

please fix soon.

/Sune

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-vserver-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libboost-python-dev depends on:
pn  libboost-dev                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-python1.34.1         <none>     (no description available)

libboost-python-dev recommends no packages.

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