Control: tags -1 confirmed This transition is ongoing, tagging it as such.
On 23/07/2018 11:26, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > > This is a transition request to upgrade boost defaults from 1.62 to > 1.67. Whilst 1.65.1 never made it into Debian, it has in Ubuntu and > the transition from 1.62->1.65.1 has been completed there. The > transition from 1.65.1 -> 1.67 is ongoing, with almost all core > packages transitioned already. > > The most common issues are general fixes due to rebuilding with newer > gcc toolchain, removal of std::tr1::* provided namespace (e.g. instead > of std::tr1::regex use either boost::regex or std::regex), and change > in naming convention of boost_python sonames (which is now > multi-python aware upstream, and debian now matching it). > > Majority of fixes are already present in upstream releases, Ubuntu > uploads, or are trivial in nature. > > I would like to upload boost-defaults, to kick of transition and work > towards removing boost1.62 from testing before relese. We have only about a handful rdeps left, some of those will be auto-removed and some others have pending fixes. dogecoin stands out as a problem though as it fixed its bug by depending on boost1.62. We just need to reopen that bug and let it be fixed for 1.67 or get autoremoved. Cheers, Emilio
