[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1130465: Bug#1130465: liborthancframework-dev: should the dependency on libboost-all-dev be versioned?

[Sébastien Jodogne]

Hi,

>> Could you please confirm that this is what you expected? In 
>> particular, I was wondering whether the ">=" should be replaced with "=".
> 
> Well, the first answer is no. But your second suggestion is less good. 
> Let me explain. What I wanted you to do is think about what the 
> expectations are for liborthancframework-dev. And *if* a versioned 
> dependency was necessary, I was expecting something like  >= major- 
> version-of-boost-during-build,  << next-major-version-of-boost~. Such 
> that during the *next* boost transition, it will be lock stepping, but 
> not during regular Debian revisions. If a versioned dependency is *not* 
> necessary I'd like to understand what's the missing piece of the puzzle 
> then.

Thanks for trying to explain me. To be completely honest, I'm not 
understanding the expectations here at all, and I don't feel confident 
that I can translate this into the correct packaging changes.

I think it would be best to involve someone with stronger Debian 
packaging expertise to help move this forward.

Regards,
Sébastien-