[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#809998: Bug#809998: libboost-date-time1.55.0: not installable in sid

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 02:25:31PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 5 January 2016 at 11:04, Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr> wrote:
> > Package: libboost-date-time1.55.0
> > Version: 1.55.0+dfsg-4
> > Severity: serious
> > User: treinen at debian.org
> > Usertags: edos-uninstallable
> >
> > Hi, libboost-date-time1.55.0 is not installable in sid on any of the
> > architectures amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64,
> > kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x. This is the case
> > since 2015-08-01.
> >
> > The reason is that it depends on libstdc++6, however libstdc++6 (5.3.1-5)
> > declares a Breaks relation with libboost-date-time1.55.0.
> >
> 
> This is not a bug =) boost1.55 was removed from testing, and should be
> removed everywhere else too.
> 
> The current boost in both testing and unstable is boost1.58, which is
> compiled with c++'11 abi and should be installable.

well, it still is a bug, you are just saying that you are not going to fix
it (which is of course OK since it is obsolete).

> Given that it's no longer installable can boost1.55 be requested to be
> removed from unstable?

I think so, but you should look out for packages that depend on boost1.55
packages [1].

-Ralf.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals