Bug#704044: ogre-1.8: Please upgrade ogre to 1.8.1 for boost1.53 transition (jessie)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2013/3/27 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org>:
> Package: ogre-1.8
> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-3
> Severity: wishlist
> User: pkg-boost-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: boost1.53
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> boost1.53 transition is being planned (See bug #704032).
> Ogre FTBFS, against boost1.53. But ogre 1.8.1 does support boost1.53.
> Please consider transitioning to ogre 1.8.1 by default.
> I believe ember had a 0.7.0 with ogre 1.8.1 support.

OGRE 1.7 is forced to depend on boost 1.49 for a reason, changelog
ogre (1.7.4+dfsg1-6):

   * Force Build-Depends and Depends of libogre-dev on version 1.49 (this
     particular one since it is the default for Wheezy).  OGRE exposes internal
     source code from boost which is sometimes incompatible between versions and
     might produce deadlocks with applications using/linking incompatible
     versions of boost.  The problem is probably not fixed completely, but this
     is an attempt to mitigate it (see the bug report for the discussion).
     Thanks Paul D Turner for the toughtful report and Steve M. Robbins for
     feedback.  (Closes: #674633).

OGRE 1.8 will probably be removed from the archives before jessie is
released (they are about to release 1.9 now, and 1.8 will be
discontinued/unsupported shortly thereafter), and I will remove 1.7 as
soon as possible after wheezy is released (it's already unsupported).

Basically: yes, I will take care of this bug report, with its very
sensible request, once the freeze is over.


Thanks.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>