On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:45:12PM +0200, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 11:16, Niels Thykier <ni...@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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed