On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 06:21:55AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> | I talked about this with Dirk[1] and may be I should have done this for
> | the moment as well. Meanwhile Dirk has ITPed r-cran-bh (#819389) and
> | has uploaded it to new - so this should be dealt with hopefully soon.
>
> It is messy and I can see it two ways. It is good not to double up installed
> size.
Could you please explain what size exactly is doubled? As far as I
understood r-cran-b would be just a wrapper for the Debian packaged
libboost.
> It is bad to have a package behave differently -- eg users of a 'fake'
> r-cran-bh in Debian would see a complete Boost and be tempted to include
> headers users of the other one do not see. Plus, small deltas.
I totally fail to understand what you mean.
> BH is at
> 1.60.0; Debian still uses 1.58.0.
That should be a temporary thing since 1.60.0 is in new[1].
Is you packaging somewhere in VCS to enable others having a look which
might clarify your text above?
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/boost1.60_1.60.0+dfsg-1.html
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