On Monday, October 11, 2010 01:11:27 pm Evan Broder wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Are you suggesting that we not include Boost1.43 and 1.44 in universe, > or only that we not make them the default and promote them into main? > > - Evan
They aren't packaged yet and packaging a new boost library is a non-trivial exercise. If they were to get packaged, then we could switch to one of them for the Universe variant, but I would propose that we not get ahead of them for the default version in Main. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
