[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#833760: cufflinks: please use the default boost version

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:49:29PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 
> yeah, I'm aware of that.  I'm subscribed to d-d, and I've been quite
> shocked to see how nobody actually cared of the starting issue, and the

There is no need to be shocked - that's a usual feature I know from
beeing subscribed by nearly 20 years. :-)

> thread quickly diverged towards more abstract, just plain academic
> goals that are quite clear to everybody are not going to be perfectly
> achived anytime soon.
> 
> > Cufflinks just does not build (neither with boost 1.60 nor 1.61 and
> > I have no chance to upload it.  Feel free to request the removal of
> > 1.60 since it does not change the situation.
> 
> I'm sorry if I conveyed the idea that I didn't get the problem, or some
> more wild idea like implying you didn't care or something….

You did not made this impression. ;-)

> I've read
> #833493 (besides, I'm subscribed to d-med-packaging@, so I received
> it too) and understand the issue and how packaging lemon is going to at
> least make possible to fix this, and how that is blocked on nonsense in
> d-d at ...
> 
> I just wanted to make you well aware of the current situation around
> this bug outside this particular package, nothing more :)

That's perfectly fine.  I just wanted to say that the removal of boost
1.60 is not harmful for cufflinks since it does not build anyway.

> > > /me does some lobbying for it.
> 
> meaning I prodded Thorsten out of d-d to either process the package
> again after the small flame in d-d, or at least tell us what he expects
> from us.

:-)  Cool.  Finally its accepted now - and will hopefully serve some
other use than building cufflinks.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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