at bottom :- On 02/11/2018, Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:26:34 +0100 Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: transition >> > > This transition was ready to be started for just over three months now. > > May I upload boost-defaults to start the transition to boost1.67? > > I believe I have answered all requests so far. There is no explicit > need or requirement to move all packages to boost1.67, if any packages > are not fixed to work with boost-default pointing at boost1.67 they > can revert to boost1.62, as both boost1.62 and boost1.67 are > co-installable. Multiple releases in the past shipped multiple boost > at the same time, thus this is not an unsual situation. Or can anyone > from the release team explain what is the hold up here? Most packages > are NMUable for this transition, some need patches uploading which do > exist for the vast majority of affected packages, and there are no > obviously broken sets of packages which would be caused by this > transition (i.e. simultaneously trying to link or dlopen two > incompatible boosts for example). > > If there is still anything unresolved, please let me know. > > Boost team is concerned about shipping boost-defaults pointing at 1.62 > in the upcoming release. We are comfortable with shipping boost 1.67 > as default, and only some minority of packages using boost1.62. > > Regards, > > Dimitri, on behalf of the Boost packaging team. > >
While the decision-makers are obviously ftp-masters as a user I would be interested to see boost-defaults make to 1.67 in Debian. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8