Re: Accepted boost 1.31.0-7 (i386 source all)
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:09:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:53:31AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:06:42AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote:
> > > Hi -- out of curiosity, do you know if this is likely to keep boost 1.30
> > > in sarge (and hence block kdeedu and regina-normal also)? Or are
> > > uploads at this late stage still expected to move into testing?
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > given the current timetable (there is none) for the solution of
> > qt-x11-free's breakage on arm (bug #270202), the missing date for sarge
> > freeze and the fact realease managers are aware of this upload [0],
> > i expect this new fixed version of boost will be shipped in sarge.
>
> It's generally deprecated to use other breakage as a reason to introduce
> new upstream versions into sarge. The more we change sarge, the more
> likelihood there is of *further* breakage. boost may happen to go in,
> but I'm not going to guarantee it.
>
> There wasn't much context in your mail; what's the new boost needed for?
>
this new upload of boost is only a bug fix of the old one, which was
not going to sarge only because of qt-x11-free is still not ready
sarge. boost 1.31.0-6 was waiting since >45 days ago.
i do not expect much breakage on sarge due to the new boost, there are
only two packages depending on it.
cheers
domenico
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