Boost1.42 is default in Debian Sid/Squeeze and what we have in Main for Maverick. Boost1.43 and 1.44 have been released upstream, but are not packaged in Debian. Additionally, we carried boost1.40 in Universe in Maverick so that we would have a boost that built the openmpi parts of the library.
My proposal for Natty is that we do ~nothing. The Debian default of 1.42 is unlikely to change before Natty feature freeze and so we should plan on this being the Ubuntu default for Natty. We should also keep a full (with MPI) version of boost in the archive. I would propose this stay at 1.40 unless a newer version appears in Debian in the relatively near future. There are still some packages using 1.40 that could migrate to 1.42. This transition should be finished so that dropping 1.40 when the time comes is easy. Comments? Suggestions? I'd like to get this out of the way now so that we know that all the syncs are built against the version of boost we want to keep for Natty. In the event that Squeeze is released before Natty feature freeze and Debian updates to a newer boost for default, then we'll look at the situation and re-evaluate. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
