Bug#914140: pytango FTBFS with boost 1.67

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:10:35AM +0000, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> Hello Adrian
> 
> If I look at the current boost1.67, I find this in the 
> boost python package
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libboost-python1.67.0/filelist
> 
> and
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libboost-python1.67-dev/filelist
> 
> We can find these
> 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python3-py36.a
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python3-py36.so
> 
> but only for the python3.6 version and not for 2.7 and 3.7
> 
> previously we had for boost 1.62
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libboost-python1.62-dev/filelist
> 
> all python version  add these -pyXY.so files.
> 
> Is it an intended change in the new boost_python package, or a mistake ?

I don't know, adding the boost maintainers to Cc for that.

> This logic -pyXY was  coded in the pytango setup.py, in order to deal with boost_python.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Fred

cu
Adrian

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