Boost library proposal for Natty

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:30:00AM -0400, Scott Kitterman 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.

Rather than carrying boost1.40 in universe, would it make sense to provide a
separate boost1.42-mpi source package that generates only the mpi packages
for universe?  Would this be notably better for security support, and/or
benefit users of MPI by having these packages on the same upstream version
as everything else?  If this is the only remaining reason for boost1.40 to
exist anywhere, it seems to me that the one-time packaging changes to have
everything using boost1.42 might be a win.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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