[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#514078: please move date_time headers that don't need the runtime library to libboost-dev

[Zack Weinberg]

Package: libboost-date-time-dev
Version: 1.34.1-15
Severity: wishlist

I appreciate having libboost-dev provide all the headers, and only those
headers, that do not require any runtime library module.  Presently, some
of the headers in libboost-date-time-dev don't require the runtime library
(in particular, date_time/posix_time/*)  Please move those headers to
libboost-dev.

(This omission causes libasio-dev to be unusable as is because it
unconditionally uses date_time/posix_time headers.  I've filed a missing
dependency bug on libasio-dev, but I really do think that it would be
better if those headers were in libboost-dev.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libboost-dev depends on:
ii  libboost-serialization-dev    1.34.1-15  serialization library for C++
ii  libstdc++6-4.2-dev [libstdc++ 4.2.4-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (d
ii  libstdc++6-4.3-dev [libstdc++ 4.3.3-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (d

Versions of packages libboost-dev recommends:
pn  libboost-date-time-dev        <none>     (no description available)
ii  libboost-doc                  1.34.1-15  Boost.org libraries documentation
pn  libboost-filesystem-dev       <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-graph-dev            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-iostreams-dev        <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-program-options-dev  <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-python-dev           <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-regex-dev            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-signals-dev          <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-test-dev             <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-thread-dev           <none>     (no description available)
pn  libboost-wave-dev             <none>     (no description available)

libboost-dev suggests no packages.

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