On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> boost1.67 is buggy, it cannot be rebuild against new icu abi, as that
> would break dist-upgrades from stable->testing; it uses python2 which
> must be removed; and it cannot be used together with current icu from
> testing/unstable.
>
> All of the reverse-dependencies are RC buggy, scheduled to be
> autoremoved and/or should be made uninstallable.
>
> Please force-remove boost1.67 from unstable, and if any
> reverse-dependencies / reverse-build-dependencies are left, make them
> uninstallable.
>
> Once dogecoin/leatherman/facter are removed or resolved in testing,
> boost1.67 can be removed from testing too.
JFTR, dogecoin/leatherman/facter have been fixed in the mean time.
The remaining ones seem in fact fair to ignore/force-through, several of
them are dropped from testing since 2019 and e.g. litecoin even since
2018. Or e.g. sofa-framework is already broken since the qt4 removal...
Cheers,
Moritz
