Bug#553281: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#553281: Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-18 Thread troy d. straszheim
Steve M. Robbins wrote: The only way that I could imagine breaking boost up (without playing the neverending game of trying to determine a dependency tree that the boost devs themselves do not understand) would be: - headers - one package per set of libs Agreed. That's what the next Debian u

Bug#553281: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#553281: Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
First of all: thank you, Leandro and Troy, for your interest in Boost and enthusiasm at improving the Debian packaging of Boost. On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:57:50PM -0500, troy d. straszheim wrote: > Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >I just did a search on closed bugs for this problem and I realized this

Bug#553281: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-03 Thread troy d. straszheim
Leandro Lucarella wrote: I'm glad you are trying to fix this from the root. I don't really see as a big problem boost being monolith, I'm just worried about Debian broken dependencies. It would be nice if it were modular though, so I appreciate the effort, but I'm not that interested on working

Bug#553281: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
troy d. straszheim, el 2 de noviembre a las 21:57 me escribiste: > But there is an argument to be made that until boost itself knows > what modularity means, one should just package boost-libs and > boost-headers and be done with it. Boost is a monolith. It > doesn't mean you've done poorly if

Bug#553281: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-02 Thread troy d. straszheim
Leandro Lucarella wrote: I just did a search on closed bugs for this problem and I realized this is a *very* recurrent bug. Even when the Debian policy might accept the current dependency scheme, I think it would be best to rethink how boost is packaged to avoid this issues. Unfortunately the pac

Bug#553281: Related bugs

2009-11-02 Thread Leandro Lucarella
I just did a search on closed bugs for this problem and I realized this is a *very* recurrent bug. Even when the Debian policy might accept the current dependency scheme, I think it would be best to rethink how boost is packaged to avoid this issues. Unfortunately the packages separation Debian cho