Boost library proposal for Natty

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 11, 2010, at 09:30 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:

>Thinking forward to the future, I'd like to see the newest version
>of libraries like boost get into the earliest possible release of
>Ubuntu. My reasoning here, is that if boost 1.44 is only added
>during 11.10, then bugs reported in that release will not likely
>have time for an upstream release which has a chance of getting
>into 12.04, which will likely be the next LTS. Whereas if we ship
>1.44 early, in Natty, then there will be a full 6 month cycle of
>Ubuntu to have the library in users' hands, which gives us time to
>evaluate and push bugs upstream well before the LTS cycle even
>begins.
>
>I also think its a good idea for us to push a little beyond Debian
>when they are frozen. The proper way to do this, IMO, would be to
>work hard to get these new releases into Experimental and feed bug
>reports back. The more this is done, the better off Debian unstable
>will be when squeeze is finally released, right?

This is exactly the rationale and plan for the Python 2.7 transition.

-Barry
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