Boost library proposal for Natty

[Scott Kitterman]

"Barry Warsaw" <barry at canonical.com> wrote:

>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.
>

Yes, but for boost the associated benefits and resources to package the new version and fix all the rdepends are much less. If someone is really motivated about boost, please speak up and drive ahead. Absent that we should just follow Debian.

Scott K