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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673839

--- Comment #4 from William Lima <wl...@primate.com.br> 2011-01-30 18:19:22 EST 
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(In reply to comment #3)
> William, why should I do this?

Why not? He's the maintainer.

> Newer versions of boost are (according to some upstream people, I'm not a C/
> C++ guy) API incompatible and I'm pretty sure, Red Hat will not break API 
> compatibility of boost.

Yes, Boost had some interface changes and many of which are not backward
compatible.

> So the only way, Red Hat might be walk for themself is like they did e.g. for 
> postgresql (-> postgresql84) or php (-> php53). If such a thing will ever
> happen, we still can obsolete this package.

Upgrade the existing package to a new version is the better way (instead of
creating a new one), and should not affect existing packages.

I see no need for this. Just ask him to update.

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