On 28 December 2015 at 08:19, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > I understand that the lack of Boost.Context support for certain architectures > will cause software using Boost.Context to fail to build on those > architectures. > > I don't follow how the empty binary package is involved in the FTBFS.
If the package build-depends on libboost-context-dev, it makes the difference between 'Build-Attempted' and 'BD-Uninstallable'. I had a look at which architectures have Boost.Context, and found the inclusive list is far shorter than the exclusive list (especially if architecture wildcards are used). Assuming bug #794622 fixes building on x32, the following list should work for boost 1.58 (arm64 should be added in 1.59 [1]): any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el Please see the attached patch (untested). [1] https://github.com/boostorg/context/commit/8481d3ccfc8e9cd3b689c43418e27ccfe722fcb2
--- a/control.in +++ b/control.in @@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ libboost1.58-tools-dev, libboost-atomic1.58-dev, libboost-chrono1.58-dev, - libboost-context1.58-dev, - libboost-coroutine1.58-dev, + libboost-context1.58-dev [any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el], + libboost-coroutine1.58-dev [any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el], libboost-date-time1.58-dev, libboost-exception1.58-dev, libboost-filesystem1.58-dev, @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Package: libboost-context1.58.0 Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/context/ -Architecture: any +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el Multi-Arch: same Section: libs Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ Package: libboost-context1.58-dev Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/context/ -Architecture: any +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el Multi-Arch: same Section: libdevel Depends: ${misc:Depends}, @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ Package: libboost-coroutine1.58-dev Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/coroutine/ -Architecture: any +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 armel armhf mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el Multi-Arch: same Section: libdevel Depends: ${misc:Depends},
