Comments regarding pyviennacl_1.0.1-1_amd64.changes

[Toby St Clere Smithe]

Hi Thorsten,

(I lost power on my laptop, so lost your e-mail and have to reply like
this..)

If you have a look at debian/rules, you'll see that in fact I do use the
Debian-provided Boost. And there is a good reason why the source package
contains a subset of Boost: PyViennaCL is written for a general
scientific / academic audience, which may be using out of date
institutional systems, or systems that run Windows, or Mac OS X. In
these cases, it's very hard to be sure of having a functioning Boost
installation, and so the upstream sources contains the minimal subset of
Boost used by PyViennaCL.

Since the source package is built directly from these upstream sources
(no need to repackage, because the copyright situation is OK), it
includes these boost sources. But, as I say, they are not used in
building the Debian binaries, and are not installed on any Debian user's
computer.

Cheers,

-- 
Toby St Clere Smithe
http://tsmithe.net