Boost needs help

[Jose Luis Rivero]

New boost release version (-5) was uploaded fixing the bug 739904 according
to the changelog[1].

[1]
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/b/boost1.54/boost1.54_1.54.0-5_changelog


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo at alaxarxa.net
> wrote:

> 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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