Bug#904316: transition: boost-defaults
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:45:12PM +0200, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 11:16, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>...
> > 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
>
> I do not have a full list. These do not break on runtime in general
> (apart from a very small subset of things which dlopen/link
> incompatible plugins), since old boost is provided and is
> co-installable. They may start to FTBFS.
If you want to do the normal build-testing before the transition,
it would be helpful to have updated boost-defaults in experimental.
>...
> those will stick on boost1.62. thus the option for those would be to
> change build-dep to libboost1.62-all-dev.
Changing build dependencies to 1.62 only makes sense if this version
will be shipped in buster.
>...
> The longer this transition is delayed the worse it gets. Thus already
> default boost is 5 major releases behind.
What is the version planned to be shipped in buster?
1.68 is already released, and 1.69 will be released in December.
IMHO doing 1.62 -> 1.67 -> 1.68 would not make sense at this point.
Better options would be:
1.62 -> 1.68 -> 1.69
1.62 -> 1.68
1.62 -> 1.67 -> 1.69
The critical question here is whether there will be a transition to 1.69
before the transition freeze (January 12th).
cu
Adrian
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