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

[Wookey]

"Steve M. Robbins" <steve at sumost.ca>
> On December 28, 2015 11:38:38 AM Graham Inggs wrote:
> > On 28 December 2015 at 08:19, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> > > I understand that the lack of Boost.Context support for certain
> > > architectures will cause software using Boost.Context to fail to build on
> > > those architectures.
> > >
> > > I don't follow how the empty binary package is involved in the FTBFS.
> >
> > If the package build-depends on libboost-context-dev, it makes the
> > difference between 'Build-Attempted' and 'BD-Uninstallable'.

> Yes, true.  For me, the distinction isn't important.  But I appreciate that 
> others might find it useful.

This is quite important and is giving people real grief on
arm64. ("Build-dep is not available" is a great deal more obvious than
a mysterious message about a missing header, which a diligent
maintainer will eventually be able to track back to this bug after
maybe an hour of poking and prodding and searching the interwebs).

Do you have a schedule for uploading a version of 1.58 with this patch
applied, and/or uploading a 1.59 which would make this issue go away,
at least for arm64. Is there anything we can do to help? (I guess a
report saying that the patch was tested working on arm64 would be
helpful).

I see that the last upload migrated to testing only at the weekend, so
I guess you were waiting for that to happen before uploading anew.

Wookey
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