[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#738538: Bug#738538: Is boost1.55 really multiarch ?

[Marc Glisse]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:

> The problem is that dependencies of the suggested packages are not
> multiarched, e.g. one cannot co-install libboost-mpi-python1.55-dev.
> I guess, there is more benefit to allow libboost1.55-dev be
> multiarched:same (since it's ready), even if all suggests are not
> multiarch installable.
> The libboost1.55-dev package is coinstallable across bitness and
> endianess different systems.

I was thinking of python (I hadn't checked) when I wrote "most", but 
indeed MPI may be an issue. However, those are exceptions, 
libboost-thread1.55-dev and many others have no problematic dependency.

Actually, is it really necessary to wait until all dependencies are 
multiarch-ready to mark a package? I don't think the content of 
libboost-mpi1.55-dev will change. If it was marked Multi-Arch: same, it 
would refuse to co-install because of missing dependencies, but would 
automatically work when openmpi is updated, no?

-- 
Marc Glisse