[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#537739: Please provide a libboost-all-dev package

[Daniel Burrows]

Package: libboost1.38-dev
Version: 1.38.0-7
Severity: wishlist

  The dependencies for Boost were recently downgraded en masse,
I suppose so people working with only one part of the library can
install just that part.  However, in cases where you have a lot of
bandwidth and disk space, it would be convenient if there was a way
to just fetch the whole thing and not have to worry about picking out
the right set of packages, or about tracking new Boost packages as
they show up.  That would avoid having to stop coding because you
discover, as I just did, that while Boost.Flyweight is included in
libboost-dev, it won't actually compile unless the serialization
and Python packages are also installed.

  I also worry about build-depending on just part of Boost -- what
happens when a new version introduces new internal dependencies (like
the flyweight -> serialization one) that cross Debian package
boundaries?

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (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/bash

Versions of packages libboost1.38-dev depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.0-10 GCC support library
ii  libicu40                      4.0.1-3    International Components for Unico
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.0-10   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libstdc++6-4.1-dev [libstdc++ 4.1.2-26   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (d
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++ 4.3.3-14   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (d

libboost1.38-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libboost1.38-dev suggests:
pn  default-jdk                <none>        (no description available)
ii  docbook-xml                4.5-6         standard XML documentation system,
ii  docbook-xsl                1.75.1+dfsg-1 stylesheets for processing DocBook
ii  doxygen                    1.5.9-1       Documentation system for C, C++, J
pn  fop                        <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-date-time1.38-dev <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-filesystem1.38-de <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-graph1.38-dev     <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-iostreams1.38-dev <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-math1.38-dev      <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-mpi1.38-dev       <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-program-options1. <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-python1.38-dev    <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-regex1.38-dev     <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-serialization1.38 <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-signals1.38-dev   <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-system1.38-dev    <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-test1.38-dev      <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-thread1.38-dev    <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost-wave1.38-dev      <none>        (no description available)
pn  libboost1.38-doc           <none>        (no description available)
ii  xsltproc                   1.1.24-2      XSLT command line processor

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