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

[Ben Burton]

Hi Sune,

> kdeedu build doesn't fail by itself if it isn't found as it is only optional, 
> but we test afterwards if it is actually build.

As an aside, what I've done with regina-normal (which also uses
boost.python) is make debian/rules check the config.log immediately
after configure finishes, to see whether it plans to build in
boost.python or not.  This means it can detect the problem (and abort
accordingly) at the beginning of the build, which could be useful
if kdeedu still takes as long to build as I remember it used to. :)

Ben.