Bug#744171: transition: boost-defaults

["Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca>]

On July 5, 2014 06:08:41 PM Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 02/06/14 11:15, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 08:34:08 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> On May 20, 2014 06:48:33 PM Julien Cristau wrote:
> >>> Are there bugs tracking packages with versioned boost
> >>> build-dependencies?
> >> 
> >> I'm not aware of any such bugs.
> > 
> > Can you make that happen then?
> 
> Steve, can you do this please? This transition has been stuck for a while.

I have checked into the packages still build-depending on Boost 1.49, and 
summarized my findings in #734195.   The good news is that there is no longer 
any impediment to removing Boost 1.49.

That leaves two Boost versions 1.54 and 1.55, which made me realize that the 
transition tracker is too pessimistic.  Right now 1.54 is considered "bad", 
but it shouldn't be.  

So I suggest to change the tracker to:

  Good: .depends ~ /libboost[a-z-]*1\.5[45]/
  Bad: .depends ~ /libboost[a-z-]*1\.(4[6-9]|5[0-3])/ 

Regards,
-Steve