[Monotone-debian] Return of unversioned boost -dev packages (boost-defaults)

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce the upload of boost-defaults, a new package
that supplies unversioned -dev packages for Boost (libboost-dev, etc.)
that simply depend on the current "default" Boost version (today, it
is Boost 1.38.0).

This means that libboost-dev and friends have effectively been
upgraded from Boost 1.34.1 (nearly 2 years old) to 1.38.0.
Maintainers of a package using these unversioned -dev packages (see
below) are advised to check whether their package continues to build
with 1.38 now.  If not, it would be great to upload a fix.  The
release team has indicated that bin-NMUs will be scheduled later on,
but would appreciate if maintainers take this opportunity to check for
failures and fix them ahead of the bin-NMUs.

Some packages have switched to a newer Boost version, and thus had to
use a versioned -dev package such as libboost1.37-dev.  If you believe
the code isn't sensitive to the Boost version, you could now switch
back to using unversioned -dev packages.



Some Details
------------

In February, we (the Debian Boost packaging team) sent an email [1] to
maintainers of affected packages that boost 1.34.1 would be removed
from the archive and, with it, the unversioned -dev packages for
Boost.  Starting with Boost 1.35, all the -dev package names include
the Boost version; e.g. libboost-python1.35-dev, etc.

One common reaction to this from maintainers of packages
build-depending on Boost was a request to retain the unversioned -dev
package names.  At the time, I didn't know how to achieve that
together with our other goals; fortunately, Adeodato Sim? was able to
explain it to me (see threads [2,3,4]).  The result is a new package,
boost-defaults, that supplies the unversioned -dev packages but which
now depend on Boost 1.38 rather than the previous 1.34.1.

Regards,
-Steve

[1] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boost-devel/2009-February/001773.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/03/msg00147.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00251.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00011.html


List of packages currently using unversioned -dev packages
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Daniel Leidert (dale) <address@hidden>
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   openbabel (U)

Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <address@hidden>
   ardour (U)

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <address@hidden>
   mypasswordsafe

Tim Abbott <address@hidden>
   polybori

Michael Banck <address@hidden>
   avogadro (U)
   openbabel (U)
   referencer
   schroot (U)

Daniel Baumann <address@hidden>
   vmware-view-open-client

Florent Bayle <address@hidden>
   hugin (U)

Dominique Belhachemi <address@hidden>
   sofa-framework (U)

Armin Berres <address@hidden>
   kdebase-workspace (U)
   kdeedu (U)
   kdenetwork (U)
   kdepim (U)
   kdepimlibs (U)
   kdeplasma-addons (U)
   kdesdk (U)

Eduard Bloch <address@hidden>
   encfs

Raphael Bossek <address@hidden>
   xsd

Gon??ri Le Bouder <address@hidden>
   vegastrike (U)

Fathi Boudra <address@hidden>
   akonadi (U)
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   kdepim (U)
   kdepimlibs (U)
   kdeplasma-addons (U)
   kdesdk (U)

Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden>
   monotone (U)

Cyril Brulebois <address@hidden>
   hugin (U)
   luxrender
   pingus (U)

Luca Bruno <address@hidden>
   nemiver

Richard Antony Burton <address@hidden>
   kicad (U)

Ben Burton <address@hidden>
   regina-normal

Ross Burton <address@hidden>
   exmap (U)

Luk Claes <address@hidden>
   schroot (U)

Andrea Corradi <address@hidden>
   nemiver (U)

LI Daobing <address@hidden>
   openbabel (U)

Debian buildd-tools Developers <address@hidden>
   schroot

Debian Games Team <address@hidden>
   asc
   bulletml
   lordsawar
   love
   performous
   pingus
   ultrastar-ng
   vegastrike

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   gpsdrive

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   ktorrent

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   lyx

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   ardour

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   hugin

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   pythonmagick

Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <address@hidden>
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   kdepim
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   kdeplasma-addons
   kdesdk
   kdewebdev

Debian VDR Team <address@hidden>
   vdr-plugin-live

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   mumble
   twinkle

Debian-Med Packaging Team <address@hidden>
   sofa-framework

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   avogadro
   openbabel

Barry deFreese <address@hidden>
   asc (U)

Barry deFreese <address@hidden>
   lordsawar (U)

C??dric Delfosse <address@hidden>
   stellarium

Alexander Dreyer <address@hidden>
   polybori (U)

Dirk Eddelbuettel <address@hidden>
   quantlib
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Free Ekanayaka <address@hidden>
   ardour (U)

Bartosz Fenski <address@hidden>
   asc (U)

Vincent Fourmond <address@hidden>
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Vedran Fura?? <address@hidden>
   bfilter

Carl F??rstenberg <address@hidden>
   pythonmagick (U)

Bdale Garbee <address@hidden>
   gnuradio

Tobias Grimm <address@hidden>
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Debian QA Group <address@hidden>
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   sffview
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Thomas G??nther <address@hidden>
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Christoph Haas <address@hidden>
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Michael Hanke <address@hidden>
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Varun Hiremath <address@hidden>
   agave
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Michael Janssen <address@hidden>
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Arthur Loiret <address@hidden>
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   source-highlight

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Jordan Mantha <address@hidden>
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   inkscape

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Simon Richter <address@hidden>
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Debian Kicad Team <address@hidden>
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