Boost library proposal for Natty

[Evan Broder]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Scott Kitterman <scott at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are you suggesting that we not include Boost1.43 and 1.44 in universe,
or only that we not make them the default and promote them into main?

- Evan