[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#892394: Bug#892394: boost1.63: build-depends on GCC 6

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 8 March 2018 at 17:48,  <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: boost1.63
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: gcc-6-rm
>
> Hi,
>
> boost1.63 build-depends on GCC 6. We now have GCC 7 (default) and GCC
> 8 in the archive, so please make your package build with a newer
> compiler (preferably the default one) again, since we'd like to
> remove GCC 6 from testing before the buster release.
>
> Cheers, Emilio

To resolve this, we should migrate to boost1.65 or later. boost1.65
has been rejected by ftp-masters, on copyright reasons. There is no
way to resolve this.

Please proceed with removing boost from Debian, and all reverse-dependencies.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.