Hi! On Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:42:07AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > I'd like to point out that any resulting build failures are quite easy > > to fix: either > > (a) contact package upstream for boost 1.48 changes; or > > It is? #652681 doesn't look like it. > Will 1.46 be around long enough that reverting to 1.46 is an option there? > The wheezy release should be with 3.5.0..
As long as something depends on 1.46, I assume that it should be around. The current situation is sub-optimal, because almost everything depends on the non-versioned boost libs of boost-defaults, despite boost's tendency to break packages when switching to a new version. The question is, which strategy is better? (1) Clearly record the dependencies in packages that depend on boost, i.e., Build-Depends on libboost-foo1.46-dev instead of libboost-foo-dev, or (2) let boost-defaults decide which version of boost is the currently stable boost. IMHO (2) just hides FTBSes of the packages. Cheers, TK -- Thomas Krennwallner University assistant . TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology Institute of Information Systems Favoritenstrasse 9-11, 1040 Wien, Austria . T: +43 1 58801 18469 F: +43 1 58801 918469 tkren AT kr DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/tkren/ . DVR: 0005886 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111227102814.ga15...@kr.tuwien.ac.at