Boinc and future plans

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Steffen and Guo and all boinc developers,

as I might have anticipated I would like to backport the last boinc release (this will be the last backport for wheezy I presume) because of the build failure on armhf [1].

So I would like to backport it as soon as it reach testing.

I also uploaded the experimental package, to avoid the "new" queue again (will it ever reach unstable? What is the status of the server packages?).

Just a few questions:

I fixed the gcc-4.9 build failure and another bug, but I didn't upload the patches since I'm not completely comfortable in them
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b04285b60c1d552f7715d5441bbf06427219b7f
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ceb0b09971fc4faf2b5fd52bce89ef742c2dae02

specially the second commit is something that bothers me a lot (I removed the "-static" flag to many libraries, because gcc was throwing "undefined symbol" errors).


Are them ok for you?
the new gcc-4.9 is going to be uploaded as default really soon, and would be nice to don't be hit unprepared this time.


For the far future as soon as bug 738849 [2] is fixed we will be able to finally fix the wx3.0 transition [3].

I really don't want to see boinc disappear again for an RC bug due to the wx3.0 switch.

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=boinc&suite=wheezy-backports

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738849

[3] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0.html

So please excuse me for the future uploads, I hope it is all ok this workplan.

Cheers,

Gianfranco