Bug#962348: kig: boost1.67 is being removed from testing

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>]

Package: kig
Version: 4:20.04.1-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

boost1.67 is being removed from testing and is transitioning to boost1.71.
kig has just now switched from boost1.71 to boost1.67.
boost1.67 must not be shipped in testing.
Thus I am opening this bug report to prevent kig from migrating.

boost1.71 does not offer python2 bindings, as python2 is being removed to.

I understand that kig is using boost-python2. Either please disable python bindings usage at build time, or try to port to boost-python3?

Either way, introducing python2 & boost1.67 usage in testing is working against release goals of not shipping python2 or boost1.67.

Also in Ubuntu, kig is the only package using boost1.67

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers groovy
  APT policy: (500, 'groovy'), (500, 'focal-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-33-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kig depends on:
ii  libboost-python1.67.0 [libboost-python1.67.0-py27]  1.67.0-17ubuntu8
ii  libc6                                               2.31-0ubuntu9
ii  libgcc-s1                                           10.1.0-3ubuntu1
ii  libkf5archive5                                      5.70.0-0ubuntu1
pn  libkf5completion5                                   <none>
ii  libkf5configcore5                                   5.70.0-0ubuntu1
ii  libkf5configwidgets5                                5.70.0-0ubuntu1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5                                   5.70.0-0ubuntu1
ii  libkf5crash5                                        5.70.0-0ubuntu1
ii  libkf5i18n5                                         5.70.0-0ubuntu1
ii  libkf5iconthemes5                                   5.70.0-0ubuntu1
pn  libkf5parts5                                        <none>
pn  libkf5service-bin                                   <none>
pn  libkf5service5                                      <none>
pn  libkf5texteditor5                                   <none>
ii  libkf5widgetsaddons5                                5.70.0-0ubuntu1
pn  libkf5xmlgui-bin                                    <none>
pn  libkf5xmlgui5                                       <none>
ii  libpython2.7                                        2.7.18-1
ii  libqt5core5a                                        5.14.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  libqt5gui5                                          5.14.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  libqt5printsupport5                                 5.14.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  libqt5svg5                                          5.14.2-1
ii  libqt5widgets5                                      5.14.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  libqt5xml5                                          5.14.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  libqt5xmlpatterns5                                  5.14.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                                          10.1.0-3ubuntu1
ii  python3                                             3.8.2-0ubuntu2

kig recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kig suggests:
pn  khelpcenter  <none>