[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#517203: Bug#517203: raising severity, cloning for other boost packages

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> [2009-03-23 20:57:49 CET]:
> The script is used to create undecorated symlinks to libraries built
> with the "default" python version.  Right now the package builds
> libraries for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5.  I don't have libraries for
> any other python version.  One way I can handle "any python version"
> is to simply not provide symlinks if Boost.Python doesn't have
> libararies for the default version of python doesn't have.
> 
> Once Python 2.6 is in sid, I'll update boost to build libraries for
> it.

 ... so for the time being the boost (and all its dependencies) are
blocked from transitioning to squeeze because of these bug reports. Is
that really the intended behavior, how long is it expected to take to
get solved for the good?

 Thanks for an update,
Rhonda