Boost library proposal for Natty

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Tue Oct 12 14:39:56 BST 2010


On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 02:49:31 am Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> 
> Scott Kitterman [2010-10-11 10:30 -0400]:
> > 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.
> 
> As long as we don't have major bugs with 1.40 which are fixed in later
> upstream versions, I agree that staying in sync with Debian is better.
> 

The only one I'm aware of got cherry picked thanks to ajmitch.  Unless we need 
to re-evaluate due to changes in Debian, I think this is the plan.

Scott K



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