Boost library proposal for Natty

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, October 11, 2010 01:11:27 pm Evan Broder wrote:
> 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

They aren't packaged yet and packaging a new boost library is a non-trivial 
exercise.  If they were to get packaged, then we could switch to one of them 
for the Universe variant, but I would propose that we not get ahead of them 
for the default version in Main.

Scott K