[pkg-boost-devel] Source of 1.3.37 while it is still in NEW ?

Steve M. Robbins steve at sumost.ca
Sun Dec 7 03:12:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:28:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> Dear Debian Boosters,
> 
> I had in the past used / toyed with the Accumulators library by Eric Niebler,
> taking it from the boost sandbox.  This is now in 1.3.37 which you guys long
> packaged (big thanks once again for that) but I cannot get to it as it is
> stuck in NEW [ no flame to NEW intended, I just another r-cran-* package
> sitting there for 4+ weeks ]
> 
> Can I get your packages sources from somewhere so that I could build a local
> package set on Ubuntu at work as I've done in the past?

Certainly: it's all available from svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-boost/boost/trunk
(c.f. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-boost/boost/trunk/)

[Incidentally, I notice that we don't advertise that fact in the
control file; I'll add it with the next upload.]


> Or will that get me into trouble as I'd need a proper transition of
> all boost-using packages?

I'm not sure what question you are asking.  

You needn't be worried that the Boost 1.37 shared libraries will cause
problems with existing compiled code, as they have a different
SOVERSION.

If you are *building* boost-using code, then you will find the
boost*1.37-dev packages conflict with earlier -dev packages so you
will be building all your code with the new boost; this may indeed get
you into trouble.  And it goes without saying that uploading any such
package to Debian will get you into trouble because 1.37 is not yet in
"sid" ...

Please re-phrase more precisely if I didn't cover your concern, above.

Regards,
-Steve

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