Hello, I'm pleased to announce the upload of boost-defaults, a new package that supplies unversioned -dev packages for Boost (libboost-dev, etc.) that simply depend on the current "default" Boost version (today, it is Boost 1.38.0).
This means that libboost-dev and friends have effectively been upgraded from Boost 1.34.1 (nearly 2 years old) to 1.38.0. Maintainers of a package using these unversioned -dev packages (see below) are advised to check whether their package continues to build with 1.38 now. If not, it would be great to upload a fix. The release team has indicated that bin-NMUs will be scheduled later on, but would appreciate if maintainers take this opportunity to check for failures and fix them ahead of the bin-NMUs. Some packages have switched to a newer Boost version, and thus had to use a versioned -dev package such as libboost1.37-dev. If you believe the code isn't sensitive to the Boost version, you could now switch back to using unversioned -dev packages. Some Details ------------ In February, we (the Debian Boost packaging team) sent an email [1] to maintainers of affected packages that boost 1.34.1 would be removed from the archive and, with it, the unversioned -dev packages for Boost. Starting with Boost 1.35, all the -dev package names include the Boost version; e.g. libboost-python1.35-dev, etc. One common reaction to this from maintainers of packages build-depending on Boost was a request to retain the unversioned -dev package names. At the time, I didn't know how to achieve that together with our other goals; fortunately, Adeodato Sim? was able to explain it to me (see threads [2,3,4]). The result is a new package, boost-defaults, that supplies the unversioned -dev packages but which now depend on Boost 1.38 rather than the previous 1.34.1. Regards, -Steve [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boost-devel/2009-February/001773.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/03/msg00147.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00251.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00011.html List of packages currently using unversioned -dev packages ---------------------------------------------------------- (The package addresses are Bcc'd in this message) Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leid...@wgdd.de> avogadro (U) openbabel (U) Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <gei...@debian.org> ardour (U) Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <f...@debian.org> mypasswordsafe Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu> polybori Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> avogadro (U) openbabel (U) referencer schroot (U) Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> vmware-view-open-client Florent Bayle <fba...@bigfoot.com> hugin (U) Dominique Belhachemi <domi...@cs.tu-berlin.de> sofa-framework (U) Armin Berres <trigger+deb...@space-based.de> kdebase-workspace (U) kdeedu (U) kdenetwork (U) kdepim (U) kdepimlibs (U) kdeplasma-addons (U) kdesdk (U) Eduard Bloch <bl...@debian.org> encfs Raphael Bossek <boss...@debian.org> xsd Gon??ri Le Bouder <gon...@rulezlan.org> vegastrike (U) Fathi Boudra <f...@debian.org> akonadi (U) kdebase-workspace (U) kdeedu (U) kdenetwork (U) kdepim (U) kdepimlibs (U) kdeplasma-addons (U) kdesdk (U) Ludovic Brenta <lbre...@debian.org> monotone (U) Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> hugin (U) luxrender pingus (U) Luca Bruno <lu...@debian.org> nemiver Richard Antony Burton <richardabur...@gmail.com> kicad (U) Ben Burton <b...@debian.org> regina-normal Ross Burton <r...@debian.org> exmap (U) Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> schroot (U) Andrea Corradi <l...@unstable.it> nemiver (U) LI Daobing <lidaob...@gmail.com> openbabel (U) Debian buildd-tools Developers <buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> schroot Debian Games Team <pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> asc bulletml lordsawar love performous pingus ultrastar-ng vegastrike Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> gpsdrive Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-ext...@lists.alioth.debian.org> ktorrent Debian LyX Maintainers <pkg-lyx-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> lyx Debian Multimedia Team <debian-multime...@lists.debian.org> ardour Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> enblend-enfuse hugin Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> pythonmagick Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org> akonadi kdebase-workspace kdeedu kdenetwork kdepim kdepimlibs kdeplasma-addons kdesdk kdewebdev Debian VDR Team <pkg-vdr-dvb-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> vdr-plugin-live Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> mumble twinkle Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org> sofa-framework Debichem Team <debichem-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> avogadro openbabel Barry deFreese <bddeb...@comcast.net> asc (U) Barry deFreese <bdefre...@debian.org> lordsawar (U) C??dric Delfosse <ced...@debian.org> stellarium Alexander Dreyer <adre...@gmx.de> polybori (U) Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> quantlib quantlib-swig rquantlib Free Ekanayaka <fr...@debian.org> ardour (U) Bartosz Fenski <fe...@debian.org> asc (U) Vincent Fourmond <fourm...@debian.org> vegastrike (U) Vedran Fura?? 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