[Monotone-devel] Re: [Monotone-debian] Boost Transitions; deprecating 1.34.1

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:20:30PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steve M. Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Now that Lenny is finally released, I want to give everyone
> > build-depending on Boost a heads-up on what's coming.  This message is
> > being sent to all package addresses that build-depend on the 1.34.1
> > release of Boost, i.e. libboost-dev, libboost-regex-dev, etc.
> >
> > In a nutshell: libboost-dev is deprecated and will be removed in the
> > coming weeks.  In its place please build-depend on libboost1.38-dev
> > (and siblings), which will be uploaded very shortly.
> 
> Thank you for the heads-up.  I have two questions.
> 
> 1) My package is known to work correctly with a wide range of boost
> releases (1.33.1-1.35 at least; I haven't tried .37 or .38 but I don't
> anticipate problems).  To make life easier for backporters, I am thus
> inclined to use a build-depends entry of the form
> 
>   boost1.38-dev | boost1.37-dev | boost1.35-dev | boost-dev
> 
> As long as the current preferred package is first in the list of
> or-deps, does this cause problems anywhere?

I believe this is fine.


> 2) I was planning to upload a new upstream version of the package in
> the next few days.  Should I do this upload before boost1.38-dev shows
> up, or wait until it does?  If I do it before, would it be acceptable
> to leave boost1.38-dev out of the dependency list, as I would then not
> have actually tried it?

The timing of the upload is your call.  Bear in mind, however, that
even if I upload Boost 1.38 today, it will take time to get through
NEW.

If you upload before, omitting the 1.38-dev is fine, since
boost1.37-dev is currently in the archive and will remain there for
some time.

Thanks,
-Steve

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