Boost library proposal for Natty

[Scott Kitterman]

Boost1.42 is default in Debian Sid/Squeeze and what we have in Main for 
Maverick.  Boost1.43 and 1.44 have been released upstream, but are not 
packaged in Debian.  Additionally, we carried boost1.40 in Universe in 
Maverick so that we would have a boost that built the openmpi parts of the 
library.

My proposal for Natty is that we do ~nothing.  The Debian default of 1.42 is 
unlikely to change before Natty feature freeze and so we should plan on this 
being the Ubuntu default for Natty.  We should also keep a full (with MPI) 
version of boost in the archive.  I would propose this stay at 1.40 unless a 
newer version appears in Debian in the relatively near future.

There are still some packages using 1.40 that could migrate to 1.42.  This 
transition should be finished so that dropping 1.40 when the time comes is 
easy.

Comments?  Suggestions?

I'd like to get this out of the way now so that we know that all the syncs are 
built against the version of boost we want to keep for Natty.  In the event 
that Squeeze is released before Natty feature freeze and Debian updates to a 
newer boost for default, then we'll look at the situation and re-evaluate.

Scott K