Bug#960193: transition: icu
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 12:34, Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 03:40:43PM +0200, László Böszörményi wrote:
> > >....
> > > Level 1.5 is needed for Boost packages to be binNMUed:
> > > Both boost1.67 and boost1.71 build correctly.
> > >...
> >
> > Changing the icu version changes the libboost_regex ABI.
> >
> > The libboost-regex*-icu* provides untangle icu transitions from boost
> > transitions, but reverse dependencies of libboost-regex1.67.0 in buster
> > depend on libboost-regex1.67.0 not libboost-regex1.67.0-icu63.
>
> If icu in unstable could add Breaks: libbost-regex1.67-0 (<<
> 1.67.0-141) that should be sufficient to ensure upgrades happen the
> right way around from buster.
This is only true for upgrades from buster that happen after
libbost-regex1.67-0 has been removed from unstable and testing.
The safe way is:
> Alternatively, we should work on removing boost1.67 in unstable &
> testing. It should not ship.
>...
Is there a good reason why the boost 1.67 -> 1.71 transition has already
happened in Ubuntu but not yet in Debian?
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
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Adrian
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