Hello, I'm pleased to announce the upload of boost-defaults, a new package that supplies unversioned -dev packages for Boost (libboost-dev, etc.) that simply depend on the current "default" Boost version (today, it is Boost 1.38.0).
This means that libboost-dev and friends have effectively been upgraded from Boost 1.34.1 (nearly 2 years old) to 1.38.0. Maintainers of a package using these unversioned -dev packages (see below) are advised to check whether their package continues to build with 1.38 now. If not, it would be great to upload a fix. The release team has indicated that bin-NMUs will be scheduled later on, but would appreciate if maintainers take this opportunity to check for failures and fix them ahead of the bin-NMUs. Some packages have switched to a newer Boost version, and thus had to use a versioned -dev package such as libboost1.37-dev. If you believe the code isn't sensitive to the Boost version, you could now switch back to using unversioned -dev packages. Some Details ------------ In February, we (the Debian Boost packaging team) sent an email [1] to maintainers of affected packages that boost 1.34.1 would be removed from the archive and, with it, the unversioned -dev packages for Boost. Starting with Boost 1.35, all the -dev package names include the Boost version; e.g. libboost-python1.35-dev, etc. One common reaction to this from maintainers of packages build-depending on Boost was a request to retain the unversioned -dev package names. At the time, I didn't know how to achieve that together with our other goals; fortunately, Adeodato Sim? was able to explain it to me (see threads [2,3,4]). The result is a new package, boost-defaults, that supplies the unversioned -dev packages but which now depend on Boost 1.38 rather than the previous 1.34.1. Regards, -Steve [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boost-devel/2009-February/001773.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/03/msg00147.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00251.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00011.html List of packages currently using unversioned -dev packages ---------------------------------------------------------- (The package addresses are Bcc'd in this message) Daniel Leidert (dale) <[email protected]> avogadro (U) openbabel (U) Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[email protected]> ardour (U) Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <[email protected]> mypasswordsafe Tim Abbott <[email protected]> polybori Michael Banck <[email protected]> avogadro (U) openbabel (U) referencer schroot (U) Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> vmware-view-open-client Florent Bayle <[email protected]> hugin (U) Dominique Belhachemi <[email protected]> sofa-framework (U) Armin Berres <[email protected]> kdebase-workspace (U) kdeedu (U) kdenetwork (U) kdepim (U) kdepimlibs (U) kdeplasma-addons (U) kdesdk (U) Eduard Bloch <[email protected]> encfs Raphael Bossek <[email protected]> xsd Gon??ri Le Bouder <[email protected]> vegastrike (U) Fathi Boudra <[email protected]> akonadi (U) kdebase-workspace (U) kdeedu (U) kdenetwork (U) kdepim (U) kdepimlibs (U) kdeplasma-addons (U) kdesdk (U) Ludovic Brenta <[email protected]> monotone (U) Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> hugin (U) luxrender pingus (U) Luca Bruno <[email protected]> nemiver Richard Antony Burton <[email protected]> kicad (U) Ben Burton <[email protected]> regina-normal Ross Burton <[email protected]> exmap (U) Luk Claes <[email protected]> schroot (U) Andrea Corradi <[email protected]> nemiver (U) LI Daobing <[email protected]> openbabel (U) Debian buildd-tools Developers <[email protected]> schroot Debian Games Team <[email protected]> asc bulletml lordsawar love performous pingus ultrastar-ng vegastrike Debian GIS Project <[email protected]> gpsdrive Debian KDE Extras Team <[email protected]> ktorrent Debian LyX Maintainers <[email protected]> lyx Debian Multimedia Team <[email protected]> ardour Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <[email protected]> enblend-enfuse hugin Debian Python Modules Team <[email protected]> pythonmagick Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]> akonadi kdebase-workspace kdeedu kdenetwork kdepim kdepimlibs kdeplasma-addons kdesdk kdewebdev Debian VDR Team <[email protected]> vdr-plugin-live Debian VoIP Team <[email protected]> mumble twinkle Debian-Med Packaging Team <[email protected]> sofa-framework Debichem Team <[email protected]> avogadro openbabel Barry deFreese <[email protected]> asc (U) Barry deFreese <[email protected]> lordsawar (U) C??dric Delfosse <[email protected]> stellarium Alexander Dreyer <[email protected]> polybori (U) Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> quantlib quantlib-swig rquantlib Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]> ardour (U) Bartosz Fenski <[email protected]> asc (U) Vincent Fourmond <[email protected]> vegastrike (U) Vedran Fura?? 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