On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:19:25 am Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:30:00AM -0400, Scott Kitterman 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. > > Rather than carrying boost1.40 in universe, would it make sense to provide > a separate boost1.42-mpi source package that generates only the mpi > packages for universe? Would this be notably better for security support, > and/or benefit users of MPI by having these packages on the same upstream > version as everything else? If this is the only remaining reason for > boost1.40 to exist anywhere, it seems to me that the one-time packaging > changes to have everything using boost1.42 might be a win.
That does sound like a good idea. Any chance you could look into doing that? If we can get this done, I can take care of the remaining 1.40 -> 1.42 transition so we can get 1.40 removed. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
