Bug#892394: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#892394: boost1.63: build-depends on GCC 6

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 14 May 2018 at 09:27, Olaf van der Spek  wrote:
> Dimitri John Ledkov:
>
>> boost1.65 has been rejected by ftp-masters, on copyright reasons.
>
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> Got a link?
> Not having Boost in Debian would be unfortunate. I'm sure there's a
> way to resolve this.

boost-mailing list for debian maintainers contained the link to the rejection.

Since then a community member has stepped up to generate a better /
more complete debian/copyright file, which we are hoping to include as
part of the 1.67 upload soon.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.

Bug#892394: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#892394: boost1.63: build-depends on GCC 6

[Olaf van der Spek]

Dimitri John Ledkov:

> boost1.65 has been rejected by ftp-masters, on copyright reasons.

Hi Dimitri,

Got a link?
Not having Boost in Debian would be unfortunate. I'm sure there's a
way to resolve this.

Gr,

-- 
Olaf

Bug#892394: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#892394: boost1.63: build-depends on GCC 6

[Marc Glisse]

Dimitri John Ledkov:


boost1.65 has been rejected by ftp-masters, on copyright reasons.


Hello,

could you include a reference to the corresponding discussion, please? I 
didn't manage to find it on the debian mailing lists. The only potentially 
relevant thing I found is a discussion in February on the boost mailing 
list about one stackoverflow snippet, but it does not mention debian at 
all and seems too small a reason to reject the library.


--
Marc Glisse

Bug#892394: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#892394: boost1.63: build-depends on GCC 6

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 8 March 2018 at 17:48,   wrote:
> Source: boost1.63
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
> User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: gcc-6-rm
>
> Hi,
>
> boost1.63 build-depends on GCC 6. We now have GCC 7 (default) and GCC
> 8 in the archive, so please make your package build with a newer
> compiler (preferably the default one) again, since we'd like to
> remove GCC 6 from testing before the buster release.
>
> Cheers, Emilio

To resolve this, we should migrate to boost1.65 or later. boost1.65
has been rejected by ftp-masters, on copyright reasons. There is no
way to resolve this.

Please proceed with removing boost from Debian, and all reverse-dependencies.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.