On 2008-12-11 10:20:26.00 Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:38:47AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > On 2008-12-11 09:14:23.00 Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, no fair! > > > > > The deal was that boost1.37 be accepted into the archive before > > > removing 1.36. With this removal we have gone from being 4 months out > > > of date (Boost 1.36 was released in August) to 8 months out of date > > > (Boost 1.35 released end of March). > > > > No, sorry. If you want to be able to deliver the greatest boost of the day, > > teach them about API stability. > > That's an old debate. You're welcome to engage with the Boost folks > yourself. I believe they know about the issue but it's not the > biggest priority for Boost. > > My role is to try to ensure that Debian keeps up with Boost.
Yes. I understand that it's not your choice, but this is a misalignment with the requirements of Debian and there is a limit on how much Debian can adapt to this. I do not think that keeping (time() - release-date-of-newest-boost-in-unstable) is the only argument here, boost is not a newspaper. > > We really, really do not want people to start using boost 1.36 now > > and the best way to achieve that is... not offering boost 1.36 now. > Thank you for making that choice for me. :-/ > Respectfully: I and others disagree. I don't believe it is your > position to choose for us. Based on the discussion between you and Joerg and an explicit ACK by Joerg on IRC, I pulled the old version now. Joerg quite explicitly said that boost 1.36 would go now while the removal of boost 1.35 should be tagged moreinfo. Between there and the filing of the bugs this seems to have changed to delay both removals, but I don't think it is entirely fair to say that the removal runs willfully afoul of a deal you made with Joerg or that I made an arbitrary choice that was exclusively yours to make. Mind you, we are having this discussion over the day or two between the removal of boost 1.36 and acceptance of 1.37, not over months that you will be stuck with a more-than-half-a-year-old boost. I'll be sure that any ambiguities are cleared up before removing boost 1.37 in March. Kind regards T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
