Boost needs help

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

A Dimecres, 5 de març de 2014, Steve M. Robbins va escriure:
> On March 3, 2014 09:22:01 AM Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> 
> > > [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8731
> > > [2] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/84950
> > > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739904
> > > [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482372
> > 
> > Thanks Jose,
> > 
> > so, when the new package of boost were upload, then we can try to build
> > again and see if it works... I hope so.
> 
> The fix for this bug has been made and uploaded.  
> 
> Unfortunately, the upload was rejected for unrelated bugs.  Apparently they 
> are "serious" bugs but not the kind I am not motivated to fix.  So patches 
for 
> #735339 and #735353 would be welcome.  Please work against 
> svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-boost/boost/branches/1.54.0
> 

Hi,

I don't know if I'm surprised, thinking if it's Aprils fools or what. Simply I 
don't understand the situation. Anyway, looking the bugs:

735339:Non free w3m valid icons

I think that it could be several solutions. One is repack the source without 
that file. I don't know how to send a patch for this. It's a NMU. Maybe, we 
can change the icon, but ...

If it's just to change the icon, I can borrow the equivalent icons from 
piuparts and change it.

And the last is create a libboost-nonfree with all this stuff.


735353: Sourceless file

I have no idea about javascript. Looking the files the are scripts, some 
firstly I don't understand the bug. However, I imagine that this "strange 
files" come from some sources, and the file provided is just the exit from 
another script.

I don't know sufficiently the policies but maybe it could be sufficient do: 
or put a note in the README with the two links from where download the 
sources, 
or include the two sources in some place of the package.


Regards,

Leopold



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