Hi, On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, Giulio Paci wrote: > https://jira.mongodb.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CXX-923 > > They finally released mongocxx 3.0.x, that they currently recommend for new > development. On the other hand, my use case for this package (Orion context
That's correct for "new development", but since it's not API compatible (I guess) it's not an option for uwsgi. > > (and possibly have > > mongo-cxx-driver-legacy provide mongodb-dev as a metapackage as well), > > What is the purpouse of this metapackage? The original package was providing the headers for the same C++ driver that was bundled as part of uwsgi from what I understood. I guess Apollon suggested to re-create it as an empty package depending on libmongoclient-dev so that the transition is smooth. > > as at least one package (uwsgi) could make use of it. > > Maybe the new driver could be an alternative for this package? Not if the API are different... > Currently I have no time at all (and will likely not have time for the next > few months). So feel free to work on this package as you want/need. > I am open to co-maintainance or even to orphan this package, if you want to > adopt it. Ok. Apollon, do you want to take up on this offer to handle the move to unstable? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
