Boost library proposal for Natty

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:19:25 am Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

That does sound like a good idea.  Any chance you could look into doing that?  
If we can get this done, I can take care of the remaining 1.40 -> 1.42 
transition so we can get 1.40 removed.

Scott K