Bug#904316: transition: boost-defaults
On Sunday, September 23, 2018 2:59:10 AM CDT Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> I would suggest to avoid too much speculation on this point: uploading a
> new release to unstable is alone rather time consuming, because (beside
> the technical challenges of correctly installing dozens of binary
> packages) we have to fill a debian/copyright file for around 50k files
> with hundreds of contributors (this is why we were still stuck at 1.62).
If debian/copyright is indeed a blocker -- and it is for me, the primary
reason I have stepped back from boost packaging -- then I think time is well
spent on the unresolved policy issues around this file.
-Steve
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