[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#808626: boost1.58: ships empty binary packages on some archs

[Graham Inggs]

Source: boost1.58
Version: 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1

Hi Maintainer

In debian/rules it is made clear that libboost-context and
libboost-coroutine are not built for all architectures:

# context is conditionally compiled because it is not supported yet on
several architectures
# coroutine depends on context, so it is also conditionally compiled

In particular, these libraries are not built for the supported
architectures arm64 and s390x.
However, boost1.58 still ships empty binary packages
libboost-context1.58.0, libboost-context1.58-dev and
libboost-coroutine1.58-dev for these architectures.

This causes FTBFS in packages that build-depend on
libboost-context-dev and liboost-coroutine-dev.  Fortunately, only
kicad seems to be affected so far, see bug #807483.

Regards
Graham