"Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca> writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote: >> > >> > Package: boost >> > Severity: wishlist >> >> > Boost 1.35 has been released and contains great enhancements. Could you >> > please update the Debian package? >> >> Seconded--I've been building my own boost packages for a while to get >> Boost.Asio, which has been included in the mainline Boost distribution >> as of 1.35.0. It'll be great to stop building my own and just use >> Debian's :) >> >> If you guys need some help, I can try updating the packaging for 1.35. > > Help would be most welcome! > > Packaging is not the issue, however. I think I can do that over the > weekend. The real issue is whether it can be uploaded this close to a > freeze; for example, does it break any existing reverse dependencies? > c.f. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00930.html > > So, assuming I can produce the packages, what would help is to have > volunteers to test build all the things that build-depend on boost. > > If interested, please email. > IMHO it would merit an upload to experimental ASAP to make the rdepends check possible, and whether to make a separate package for 1.35.0 depends on the result. > Thanks, > -Steve
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