Hi folks, I apologize for the mess. On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:04:18PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for notifying us. > > * Roger Leigh (rleigh@codelibre.net) [090830 11:09]: > > /usr/share/doc/libboost-program-options1.39-dev/README.Debian > > still lists '-lboost_program_options-mt' as the name to use, > > however. Thanks; I'll fix that. > > Is this change intentional, or just a bug in the 1.39 packaging? > > > Does this retain or break compatibility with other distributions > > using Boost, and/or a stock build of Boost? The change was made upstream, so yes it is intentional and Debian will have the same link names as other distributions. I did know that this would be an issue when I packaged 1.39, but at the time 1.38 was the default so I had planned to deal with this later; in particular the coordinatation with reverse deps. Six weeks later Boost 1.40 was released, so I flipped the default in preparation to uploading 1.40 / removing 1.38. However I forgot about the name change. I dropped the ball on this one. > As we currently fight to get the large mysql / ...-transition through, > can we please have an status update ASAP. > > I think it would be best to undo it for the moment, and do it at an > more appropriate time (if that was an intended change). And of course, > coordinating with -release before doing such changes is helpful (read: > required) to avoid have too many broken things at the same time. I'm open to suggestions. Perhaps the best way forward is to re-introduce an -mt variant name as a symlink to the non-mt name. If that's agreeable, I'll get it done today. Regards, -Steve
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