On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:04:13AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Steve M. Robbins <s...@debian.org> (22/07/2012): > > Given the long lifetime of stable Debian, I expect users would > > appreciate having the latest Boost available. This is a leaf package > > so should have no impact on stability of the archive. > > > > [Testing currently has Boost 1.49 as default and I propose to keep it > > that way even if Boost 1.50 is also available.] > > > > unblock boost1.50/1.50.0-1 > > I think it's way too late to add new packages to testing, and I'm not > sure boost's being boost is a strong enough reason to make an exception > for it.
Yes, it's a judgement call, I'd agree. My thinking is that (a) it's already building on all architectures (low risk) and (b) has somewhat better support for GCC 4.7 and (c) it's Boost :-) Anyway, I leave the decision to the Release Team. Cheers, -Steve
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