[pkg-boost-devel] Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

Steve M. Robbins steve at sumost.ca
Tue Dec 27 04:40:17 UTC 2011


Hello,

The latest Boost (1.48) is now in testing, and I'd like to switch the
defaults.  My first plan was to simply announce the switch then make
it.  I did so and got an immediate email from the release team
asking to revert the default change, which I did.


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:00:15PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:33:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> > I heard of at least two failures in the last couple of hours:
> > libreoffice (#652681), and wesnoth (#652677).  As such, I'd appreciate
> > if you could:
> > - revert boost-defaults to 1.46 for the time being
> 
> Done.
> 
> > - test-build at least the most prominent reverse deps against 1.48
> >   before bumping it again
> > - contact debian-release before that bump, so we can coordinate a timing
> >   that doesn't suck with regards to other ongoing transitions.

Now I'd like to coordinate a time for the change.  

I'd like to point out that any resulting build failures are quite easy
to fix: either
 (a) contact package upstream for boost 1.48 changes; or 
 (b) change the build-dependency from libboostfoo-dev to libboostfoo1.46-dev.

It would be quite helpful to do a rebuild of the 237 boost reverse
dependencies.  Lucas Nussbaum seems to be able to do this: can you run
a rebuild with updated boost-defaults?

Thanks,
-Steve
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