Bug#749944: build ogre-1.9 against new boost-defaults 1.55?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-05-30 20:39 GMT+01:00 Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com>:
> Source: ogre-1.9
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello,
> Ogre-1.9 builds against boost 1.54. Debian just bumped boost-defaults to 1.55.
> Is it possible to bump debian/control BDs such that it builds against
> libboost-dev instead of libboost1.54-dev?
>
> It will make future transitions easier. Thank you.
>
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/boost1.55.html
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744171

Hi Scott,

Is this necessary because 1.54 is going to be removed?

The versions are hardcoded to force reverse build-depends using the
same versions, due to problems in the past (incompatibilities causing
deadlocks when starting the application):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674633

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/o/ogre/unstable_changelog
(last item in 1.7.4+dfsg1-6)


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>