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On 23/09/2018, Giovanni Mascellani <g...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
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>
> I would suggest to avoid too much speculation on this point: uploading a
> new release to unstable is alone rather time consuming, because (beside
> the technical challenges of correctly installing dozens of binary
> packages) we have to fill a debian/copyright file for around 50k files
> with hundreds of contributors (this is why we were still stuck at 1.62).
>
> Since that would take time and doing the transition takes a lot of time
> too, I would just go for 1.67 at this point (for which at least the
> first step is already done), and once 1.67 is transitioned, see what can
> be done later.
>
> BTW, I am trying to do a rebuild of all packages depending on boost with
> 1.62 and with 1.67, to see which new build failures are introduced. I
> don't have much experience in mass rebuild and my only available
> hardware is my own laptop, so it might take some time.
>
Dear Giovanni,
I don't have any expertise though I have a quad-core PC and a
cowbuilder instance at my end.
If you feel like sharing your expertise about what needs to be done,
could follow your steps and find build failures and all.
There are packages which aren't listed because some packages/package
versions explicitly need boost 1.66 or later.
One for e.g. is nheko, whose next version depends on boost 1.66 or
later headers. There may be more though. See #908101 for an example
of the same.
I know a few more but they aren't in debian because I haven't been
able to build them locally without the headers and knowing what
breakage to expect (if any) .
Even libtorrent-rasterbar9 which came to testing today is better
served by boost 1.67 (it's in upstream changelog) but the maintainer
somehow succeeded in having it run with 1.62.
Please let me know if I can be of help.
Sorry for the noise generated.
> Giovanni.
> --
> Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascell...@gmail.com>
> Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles
>
>
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