On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:00:30PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Eelco,
> 
>  > We appear to have 7 different versions of Boost now. Do we actually
>  > need all of them?
> 
> Boost versions 1.42.0 and 1.48.0 are unused -- no packages references
> those. I would like to delete them, but I figured that this should be
> done in a pull request so that people have a chance to comment.
> 
> Version 1.49.0 is also unused after the appearance of 1.50.0. If 1.50.0
> doesn't cause any build problems, we might want to delete that one too.
> 
> Let's wait a few days, and then we move forward on that front.
> 
> The other (older) versions of Boost are typically used by old packages
> that haven't seen any updates in ages. A while ago, I checked the
> upstreams and it seemed like those packages are dead. I didn't want to
> delete them a the time, but we might want to address that issue, too.

I'll check digikam and freecad. I updated digikam recently, for example.

Regards,
Lluís.
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