[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#833772: Bug#833772: dynare: please drop those old alternatives on the boost dep

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> I added such alternative dependencies to satisfy users who wanted to use
> non-default Boost versions for compilation. See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dynare/+bug/1077301
> 
> It's indeed a mess, and keeping the alternative up-to-date is painful.
> So I'm willing to drop it, even though it may be a disservice to some
> users.

I mean, I can live with it (hence feel free to just tell me "sod off"
and close the bug), but really keeping up and adding the versioned dep
of boost to the package sounds like a lot of busywork for you too…

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