On 12 June 2023 at 16:08, Steve Langasek wrote: | On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 05:22:39PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > edd@rob:~$ cat deb/bh/debian/control | > Source: r-cran-bh | > Section: gnu-r | > Priority: optional | > Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | > Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 11), r-base-dev (>= 4.1.1), dh-r | > Standards-Version: 4.6.0 | > Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-bh | > Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-bh.git | > Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=BH | | > Package: r-cran-bh | > Architecture: all | > Multi-Arch: foreign | > Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libboost-dev (>= 1.74.0) | > Description: (Virtual) GNU R package to provide BH | > The CRAN package BH provides a (large) subset of Boost. This package tricks | > R into believing BH is installed when we just depend on the distribution's | > Boost packages. The actual set of Boost libraries could get fine-tuned. In | > short, we avoid doubling up the 140+ mb of the 'BH' package which are alredy | > in libboost-dev. | > edd@rob:~$ | | > So it isn't "really" 1.74, that is simply the last time we edited the shell | > that this provides. Hence "no bumping". We have to wait for 1.81. | | boost1.81 is already available in Debian but is not yet the version pointed | to by boost-defaults; this is what I meant by depending on libboost1.81-dev | instead of libboost-dev - no need to duplicate the boost contents, just | change the dependency.
I missed that. So I could just roll the virtual one. I like that. | You would eventually want to change it back, of course, so that you aren't | stuck on boost1.81 when something *newer* becomes the default in Debian. | | And the boost1.81 transition already has a bug open for it: | | https://bugs.debian.org/1028489 | | For my part, I don't mind if fixing this waits until boost1.81 becomes the | default. I only wanted to point out the options. No, that is slick. Thanks for pointing it out. When do we re-open testing? I have a few dozen uploads in experimental I need to move too. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
