[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#833377: release.debian.org: boost1.61 transition

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hello,

pkg-boost team would like to transition to the next boost abi, based on
1.61 release.

boost1.61 is now in experimental.

The abi is complex and depends on multiple things. We do not wish to
maintain same boost series (1.61) with multiple abi builds. Due to fixes
to the c++11 inline namespace abi tags in gcc-6 (as compared to gcc-5)
the ABI of boost-regexp changes when compiled with gcc-6. Therefore we
would like to only support boost1.61 abi, when compiled with gcc-6. This
makes transation to boost1.61 depend on on g++-6 being the default.

There is icu 57.1 staged in experimental. This transtion is large as
well, and we would like to lead transtion to icu 57.1 with
boost1.61. Therefore boost1.61 build-depends on icu 57 or higher.

Please let me know if you are happy to transition to
boost1.61(gcc-6,icu57), and let me know when we can coordinate the lot.

A boost tracker similar to the past boost trackers would be useful, once
the transtion starts.

Regards,

Dimitri