[pkg-boost-devel] Next Boost Version

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 28 February 2013 06:45, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> On February 27, 2013 04:05:56 AM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> Boost 1.53 was released upstream in the beginning of February.
>
> Yes, and I have started packaging it.  However, I wanted to simplify things a
> bit and have got it in a slight mess at the moment.  It's in SVN if you want
> to take a look.
>

Ok, I'll check it out.

>
>> Also would you consider switching default version in experimental? (or
>> are transitions there are pointless, would help test builds with
>> gcc4.8 though).
>
> I'm not sure what the release folks would think about a transition in
> experimental.
>

Ok.

> How is boost-defaults related to the gcc build?  Or do you mean rebuilding
> other packages using gcc 4.8?
>

Thinking about this, it shouldn't matter as long as new boost is
available one can just build against it.

>
>> At the same time should I be pushing a patch from
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691378 ?
>
> Python 3.3 is not yet in the archive, so I'm not going to worry about this.
>

It is in Experimental and it is default in ubuntu. Which may or may
not change your opinion about it =) At least a review of the patch
would be nice, and/or pointers if there is a way to make it more fit
jam code base style.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.