[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#833772: dynare: please drop those old alternatives on the boost dep

[Mattia Rizzolo]

source: dynare
version: 4.4.3-3
severity: minor

Dear maintainer,

currently dynare has this in d/control:

Package: dynare-matlab
Architecture: all
Section: contrib/math
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, dynare (>= ${source:Version}),
 libboost-graph-dev (>= 1.36) | libboost-graph1.55-dev | libboost-graph1.54-dev | libboost-graph1.49-dev,
 gfortran, matlab-support, make, libslicot-pic, libmatio-dev
Description: MATLAB support for Dynare

that alternative dep on liboost-graph-dev is totally useless (as 1.49 is
oldstable, 1.54 is long gone, 1.55 is current stable), considering that
the first one is always available.  The gain is really minimal (only
advantags is that if somebody by chance has a versioned liboost-graph
installed won't install the metapackage), and instead confuses tools as
they believe this package explicitly depends on e.g.
liboost-graph1.55-dev.

Example of confuses tools includes dak and ben (the release team's
transition tracker).

Right now your package is marked as bed due to this dependency, for
example.

-- 
regards,
                        Mattia Rizzolo

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