[pkg-boost-devel] Boost Transitions; deprecating 1.34.1

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:22:05PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Can you provide a virtual package libboost-dev (and likewise for
> libboost-test-dev etc) ?
> 
> It strikes me as suboptimal, and quite frankly, impractical as well as
> impossible, to get 70 or 80 packages to updates their Build-Depends four
> times a year. 


In principle yes, a virtual package could be provided; though not
until the real packages are removed from the archive.

However, that will simply reintroduce (in one form or another) the
entangled transition problem.  

The key point is that there *is* no libboost-dev API.  Each Boost
version must be considered incompatible with the others.

If you have some good ideas on how to solve it, I'm all ears.

Regards,
-Steve
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