[pkg-boost-devel] Backporting Boost 1.38 for Lenny

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 04:36:53PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hello Roger,
> 
> I'm very sorry about neglecting your message but real world
> obligations restrict my Debian time.

It's not a problem, I have the same problem myself :)

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:43:24PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Dear Boost Developers,
> > 
> > I'm maintaining a boost-using package in sid (schroot) which is
> > used by the Debian autobuilder infrastructure which is based
> > upon Debian stable.  In order to allow the autobuilders to use
> > newer versions of the build tools, I upload backported versions
> > of the tools to backports.org.
> > 
> > However, given that I will be moving to depending on Boost 1.38
> > as soon as it enters stable, I just wanted to enquire about the
> > possibility of getting Boost 1.38 uploaded to backports.
> 
> For myself, there is zero probability that I will upload
> Bost to backports.  As I say, I have little enough time as it
> is, to keep it update in sid.

I don't think this should be a problem in practice, since the
code is mostly compatible with Boost back to 1.35.  If I
add some extra complexity to the configure script and update the
build-dependencies for the backport, it should build with both
versions and save the need for a Boost backport.

While I've updated schroot in upstream git to build with 1.38,
I haven't yet made a release to upload to unstable.  I should
hopefully have a tested release ready to upload in the next
few weeks, but it's mainly down to the limited time I have
available for working on it.  Apologies if this is keeping
1.35 around if you need to get rid of it quickly.


BTW, all your hard work on Boost is most appreciated.


Regards,
Roger

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