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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda at deb.at> [2009-03-27 10:59:29 CET]:
> * Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> [2009-03-23 20:57:49 CET]:
> > The script is used to create undecorated symlinks to libraries built
> > with the "default" python version.  Right now the package builds
> > libraries for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5.  I don't have libraries for
> > any other python version.  One way I can handle "any python version"
> > is to simply not provide symlinks if Boost.Python doesn't have
> > libararies for the default version of python doesn't have.
> > 
> > Once Python 2.6 is in sid, I'll update boost to build libraries for
> > it.
> 
>  ... so for the time being the boost (and all its dependencies) are
> blocked from transitioning to squeeze because of these bug reports. Is
> that really the intended behavior, how long is it expected to take to
> get solved for the good?

 Looked into it again - it only seems to affect boost1.37 badly. The
version it was reported for boost1.35 is only in experimental, and the
version it was reported for boost is already in testing.

 My suggestion is to reduce the severity for the bugreport against
boost1.37 for the time being so that it can transition to testing and
won't hold up other packages along that way until a proper solution has
been worked out.

 Would that be acceptable to you, Matthias?
Rhonda