[pkg-boost-devel] Package compatibility issues between libcgal-dev and libboost-program-options1.35-dev

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hello Guys,

There seems to be a problem installing

libcgal-dev

when

libboost-program-options1.35-dev

is installed. Unless there are REAL software compatibilities, which 
might warrant creating additional packages to support 
libboost-program-options1.35-dev it seems like this package is named 
wrong for the dependency checker to validate it.

Anyway, I would appreciate it you guys have not already talked that you 
do and resolve this so libcgal can be installed with either version.

What is the preferred installation options/versions regarding these?

Best regards,
   -Steve

Here is what I'm seeing from apt on my system:

$ apt-cache search libboost-program
libboost-program-options-dev - program options library for C++
libboost-program-options1.34.1 - program options library for C++
libboost-program-options1.35-dev - program options library for C++
libboost-program-options1.35.0 - program options library for C++


$ apt-cache show libcgal-dev
Package: libcgal-dev
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/libdevel
Installed-Size: 24636
Maintainer: Joachim Reichel <joachim.reichel at gmx.de>
Architecture: amd64
Source: cgal
Version: 3.3.1-4
Depends: libcgal2 (= 3.3.1-4), libboost-dev, libboost-graph-dev, 
libboost-program-options-dev (>= 1.34), libgmp3-dev, libmpfr-dev, 
libqt3-mt-dev, liblapack-dev, libatlas-base-dev | libatlas.so.3gf, 
zlib1g-dev
Filename: pool/non-free/c/cgal/libcgal-dev_3.3.1-4_amd64.deb
Size: 3887432
MD5sum: cff877b4515637599ea57f3cdaa2f67d
SHA1: efcdd0f5722b51d2c7c168cf4b8c358873b8ea3d
SHA256: 25c918078b6843a1c88e54f30717b9110e6a0ab52fd9f8d1d79bb9967fabdd89
Description: C++ library for computational geometry (development files)
  CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library) makes the most important
  of the solutions and methods developed in computational geometry available
  to users in industry and academia in a C++ library. The goal is to provide
  easy access to useful, reliable geometric algorithms.
  .
  This package contains the header files and static libraries.
Homepage: http://www.cgal.org/
Tag: devel::library, uitoolkit::qt