[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#454605: [VAC] now - undefined (was Re: ICU transition status)

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:39:20AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:

> > The attached patch looks to me like it does the necessary handling of
> > switching to gcc-4.2 without breaking the ABI.  I'm still going through the
> > QA on it, but so far it looks sane; if anyone notices a problem with it,
> > please let me know, otherwise I'll plan to NMU once I have a good build and
> > am happy that I haven't broken anything.

> A but offtopic now, but I jumped into my mind while looking at your
> diff.... As we want to move to python2.5 at some point

> I think the line

> PYTHON_CONFIG="using python : 2.4 : /usr ;"

> could be replaced by

> PYTHON_CONFIG="using python : $(shell pyversions -dv) : /usr ;"

> Which would allow to drop the build-dependency on python2.4-dev -
> assuming that boost builds fine with python2.5.

Yes, that would be nice.  The package currently build-depends on
python2.4-dev, *and* an python-dev | python-all-dev; simplifying that can
only be a win.

BTW, the previous patch didn't work, I made the mistake of thinking that the
sonames were being set from within debian/rules when the complex logic in
debian/rules was apparently just there to keep pace with upstream.  So
that's a factor in not dropping the explicit "g++-4.2" build-dep for now.

The attached patch works quite a bit better, and is what I'll upload if it
finishes checking out here.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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