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

[Matthias Klose]

Gerfried Fuchs schrieb:
> * Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda at deb.at> [2009-03-27 10:59:29 CET]:
>> * 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?
> 
>  Looked into it again - it only seems to affect boost1.37 badly. The
> version it was reported for boost1.35 is only in experimental, and the
> version it was reported for boost is already in testing.

hmm, so there is already a fixed version for boost in unstable?

>  My suggestion is to reduce the severity for the bugreport against
> boost1.37 for the time being so that it can transition to testing and
> won't hold up other packages along that way until a proper solution has
> been worked out.
> 
>  Would that be acceptable to you, Matthias?

sounds ok. so which versions do have the fix now? Just want to add the conflicts
with earlier versions.

  Matthias