hi, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:29:51AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > As to the question of who will do the porting work, I'll be frank: it > won't be me. I'll help out where I can, but I have a limited time for > Debian each week and am already overstretched. I won't speak for the > rest of the Boost team, except to note that the Changelog will show > that for the past 7 years there has been only one active maintainer at > a time, alternating between Domenico Andreoli and myself. There's > not a lot of spare cycles here; help is more than welcomed! :-) i am currently pretty upset of Debian and i am not being too active. neiter i have much spare time. so i will not do that work either. while i am sure Steve is overstretching i don't think i will help him any time soon, sorry Steve. this package is not an easy task and must be managed by a team, not a single person, expecially now that there are multiple versions in the archive and get more and more rdepends. good skills are required, here c++ is used in very advanced way. i find the boost-default package the most simple way to drive transitions but given the rate of new upstream releases i would expect that latest released version can never be the default in testing. so moving boost-default only when the upgrade can be managed mostly via BinNMU looks the best option to me. in this way experimental builds may be of help. yes, i said nothing new, only my own thougts about it. cheers, Domenico ps: Steve, thank you for the great work! -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
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