Bug#904316: transition: boost-defaults

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

This transition is ongoing, tagging it as such.

On 23/07/2018 11:26, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> 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.

We have only about a handful rdeps left, some of those will be auto-removed and
some others have pending fixes. dogecoin stands out as a problem though as it
fixed its bug by depending on boost1.62. We just need to reopen that bug and let
it be fixed for 1.67 or get autoremoved.

Cheers,
Emilio