[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#583862: standalone asio package into pkg-boost

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 23/02/13 09:22, Markus Wanner wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> On 02/23/2013 07:48 AM, I wrote:
>> Again: I'm not eager to package and test versions older than 
>> 1.4.8. And yes, I tried with 1.4.1. IMO we should just go
>> forward and forget about older versions. We can still get 1.4.8
>> to wheezy as a backport, later on.
> 
> Rethinking this, I realized that we need to maintain some
> (possibly old) version for wheezy, anyway.
> 
> OTOH we are discussing patch releases, i.e. all of 1.4.x is
> considered a "stable release series" by upstream. So one might
> argue that 1.4.x is what goes into wheezy, and any release with a
> newer x needs to go in wheezy as well - as a bug fix or even
> security fix.
> 
> See for example the 1.4.8 changes:
> 
> * Fixed an integer overflow problem that occurs when 
> `ip::address_v4::broadcast()` is used on 64-bit platforms.
> 
> * Fixed a problem on older Linux kernels (where epoll is used
> without timerfd support) that prevents timely delivery of
> deadline_timer handlers, after the program has been running for
> some time.
> 
> To me, this sounds like fixes that Debian stable (wheezy) users
> want to get as well.
> 
> I didn't check source code changes to confirm this, though.


Sadly, the release team have very strict policies and if the output of
`diff 1.4.1 1.4.8' looks very big, they just might not accept it - or
even worse, they might decide the package is too difficult for Debian
and throw it out

That is why I would be tempted to have the earlier versions in there,
in case we can push for 1.4.2 but not quite stretch to 1.4.8
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