[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

[Olaf van der Spek]

Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> If we do decide to have co-installable -dev packages, the next
> question is how do we handle the current non-versioned includes and
> link libraries?  Do we follow what gcc and python do, providing a
> defaults that change from time to time?  Or should we not attempt to
> provide such defaults?  I fear the first option will bring us back to
> the same misery we currently suffer with transitions.  So I'm fine
> with not providing defaults, which is in line with upstream practices
> anyway.

What would that imply?
Would users have to modify the build script to add the Boost include 
directory to the include path?
At the moment this is not necessary and I think requiring it is a bad 
idea (for users that have to compile third-party code)

> I've finished the initial packaging of 1.35.0 and checked it in to
> SVN.  It currently uses the same scheme we've always used, with
> unversioned -dev packages.  I did, however, patch upstream to remove
> the toolset from the library names so there are fewer symlinks.  It's

What is the advantage of having fewer symlinks?

> not uploaded to experimental; I'm reconsidering the wisdom of doing
> so, since we should be able to get 1.35 packages (co-installable with
> 1.34.1) uploaded directly to unstable.
> 
> I also removed the Boost library version from the link library names.
> However, reflecting upon what you say, I suppose we really prefer to
> have version X-dev and version (X+1)-dev co-installable.  If so, we
> would revert that change and adjust the rules accordingly.

Is there documentation about the incompatibilities between 1.34 and 1.35?

> By the way, before starting to fiddle with 1.35, I branched the trunk
> to pkg-boost/boost/branches/1.34.1.  My thought is that any further
> development for 1.34.1 would live there.  When the next boost version
> is released, we would again branch the trunk to branches/1.35.0 and
> work there for 1.35.0.