Bug#904316: transition: boost-defaults

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Dimitri John Ledkov:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> This is a transition request to upgrade boost defaults from 1.62 to
> 1.67. Whilst 1.65.1 never made it into Debian, it has in Ubuntu and
> the transition from 1.62->1.65.1 has been completed there. The
> transition from 1.65.1 -> 1.67 is ongoing, with almost all core
> packages transitioned already.
> 
> The most common issues are general fixes due to rebuilding with newer
> gcc toolchain, removal of std::tr1::* provided namespace (e.g. instead
> of std::tr1::regex use either boost::regex or std::regex), and change
> in naming convention of boost_python sonames (which is now
> multi-python aware upstream, and debian now matching it).
> 
> Majority of fixes are already present in upstream releases, Ubuntu
> uploads, or are trivial in nature.
> 
> I would like to upload boost-defaults, to kick of transition and work
> towards removing boost1.62 from testing before relese.
> 
> Ben file:
> 
> title = "boost-defaults";
> is_affected = .depends ~ /libboost[a-z-.]*1\.6[0123457]/;
> is_good = .depends ~ /libboost[a-z-.]*1\.67/;
> is_bad = .depends ~ /libboost[a-z-.]*1\.6[012345]/;
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

I noticed at least 13 packages that have boost-related changes in an
Ubuntu diff (and I certainly have *not* checked all packages in the
boost transition tracker; I only looked at dep level 3).

 * libcutl
 * lvtk
 * minieigen
 * opengm (removes binary packages)
 * performous (moves to boost1.65)
 * pyexiv2
 * pytango
 * shark (reduces test precision)
 * tagpy
 * vcmi (moves to boost1.65)
 * anytun
 * aptitude
 * freeture

Can you please provide a full list of packages that will break with the
new boost default?  How will Debian handle the packages that Ubuntu
migrated to boost1.65 and left at that version (e.g. performous and vcmi
above)?  AFAICT, Debian does not have a boost1.65 to migrate too.

Thanks,
~Niels