The Ubuntu archive is organized differently than the Debian one which
causes some divergence.
Due to the demand for the Boost MPI packages, we have decided to keep
two versions of Boost in the archive for Maverick. Boost 1.42 is in
Main and (because the needed MPI build-depends aren't in Main) is
This issue has forced me to manually install boost into /opt, both with
9 and 10 versions of the distributions. If the debian people can solve
the problem, why not use their knowledge to solve ours?
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Please package boost-mpi and boost-mpi-dev
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582420
You received
So the Ubuntu packaging policy is now diverging from Debian's: Debian
packages libboost-mpi-dev with version 1.42.0 of Boost MPI.
"No one" in the above must mean "no one in the Ubuntu management team"
since clearly the Debian team have no problem with this issue.
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Please package boost-mpi and
For the sake of consistency, the explanation why Boost.MPI packages are
not built (taken from #531973):
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Because of the way Boost packages are built, there is not a good way to build
the MPI packages in Ubuntu without pulling all of the MPI stack into Main and
no one is willing to do that. The
For good or ill MPI is the defacto standard solution for handling
parallel computations in C, C++ and Fortran. For good or ill Boost is
the de facto standard library of extensions to C++. Doing any
parallleism using C++ will therefore involve Boost.MPI -- including
after the C++0x standard comes
