Hello, On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 06:09:33PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 01:29:58 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > I would like to change Debian's default boost version from 1.46.1 to > > 1.48. This change does not directly impact any binary packages. > > However, it will affect the buildability of source packages. > > > I set up http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/boost1.48.html to > track the rebuild status of the reverse dependencies.
Thanks, Julien. I need some guidance from the release team regarding Boost. Last Sunday I uploaded another new version (1.49). It's still in NEW, but I'd like to transition boost-defaults to 1.49 ASAP. I plan to do local rebuilds as I did for 1.48 prior to transitioning and submit any patches necessary to support Boost 1.49. Based on my experience with 1.48, that will likely take some weeks (say 4). I'm not 100% sure what happens when a transition tracker is set up (as for boost1.48). But I fear it may consume release team resources scheduling rebuilds and the like. If so, the question for the release team is: do you want to do it for 1.48 or wait for the 1.49 transition? As far as I know, the Wheezy freeze is still on for June. The next boost release should be in late May, which I suspect means it will be too late for me to package for the June freeze. Thus my proposal is that 1.49 be the default version of boost for Wheezy. This is why I raise the idea of skipping 1.48 and concentrating on migrating boost defaults to 1.49. Appreciate any feedback. Thanks, -Steve
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