[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#517203: Bug#517203: raising severity, cloning for other boost packages

[Matthias Klose]

Steve, thanks for the reply.

Steve M. Robbins schrieb:
> Matthias,
> 
> We have a bit of a chicken and egg problem, here.  
> 
> We're using the rtupdate script to create undecorated symlinks for
> boost python libraries built against the default python.  Until Python
> 2.6 is available to build the Boost.Python package, no such libraries
> exist.
> 
> The current behaviour for the rtupdate script is to exit with an
> error.  Is the error what is driving this bug?

yes, it breaks installation of a python (>= 2.6) package during the python 2.6
postinst.

> I can modify the script to simply remove the existing symlinks and not
> create any but exit with success.  Would that address the bug
> in your eyes?

why not just extend your version check for any python version. Is there a reason
why it is versioned at all? I couldn't find a rationale for the current behaviour.

  Matthias