Return of unversioned boost -dev packages (boost-defaults)
Steve M. Robbins
steve at sumost.ca
Mon May 11 04:07:44 UTC 2009
Hello,
I'm pleased to announce the upload of boost-defaults, a new package
that supplies unversioned -dev packages for Boost (libboost-dev, etc.)
that simply depend on the current "default" Boost version (today, it
is Boost 1.38.0).
This means that libboost-dev and friends have effectively been
upgraded from Boost 1.34.1 (nearly 2 years old) to 1.38.0.
Maintainers of a package using these unversioned -dev packages (see
below) are advised to check whether their package continues to build
with 1.38 now. If not, it would be great to upload a fix. The
release team has indicated that bin-NMUs will be scheduled later on,
but would appreciate if maintainers take this opportunity to check for
failures and fix them ahead of the bin-NMUs.
Some packages have switched to a newer Boost version, and thus had to
use a versioned -dev package such as libboost1.37-dev. If you believe
the code isn't sensitive to the Boost version, you could now switch
back to using unversioned -dev packages.
Some Details
------------
In February, we (the Debian Boost packaging team) sent an email [1] to
maintainers of affected packages that boost 1.34.1 would be removed
from the archive and, with it, the unversioned -dev packages for
Boost. Starting with Boost 1.35, all the -dev package names include
the Boost version; e.g. libboost-python1.35-dev, etc.
One common reaction to this from maintainers of packages
build-depending on Boost was a request to retain the unversioned -dev
package names. At the time, I didn't know how to achieve that
together with our other goals; fortunately, Adeodato Simó was able to
explain it to me (see threads [2,3,4]). The result is a new package,
boost-defaults, that supplies the unversioned -dev packages but which
now depend on Boost 1.38 rather than the previous 1.34.1.
Regards,
-Steve
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boost-devel/2009-February/001773.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/03/msg00147.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00251.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00011.html
List of packages currently using unversioned -dev packages
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Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leidert at wgdd.de>
avogadro (U)
openbabel (U)
Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger at debian.org>
ardour (U)
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <faw at debian.org>
mypasswordsafe
Tim Abbott <tabbott at mit.edu>
polybori
Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org>
avogadro (U)
openbabel (U)
referencer
schroot (U)
Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org>
vmware-view-open-client
Florent Bayle <fbayle at bigfoot.com>
hugin (U)
Dominique Belhachemi <domibel at cs.tu-berlin.de>
sofa-framework (U)
Armin Berres <trigger+debian at space-based.de>
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdeedu (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdeplasma-addons (U)
kdesdk (U)
Eduard Bloch <blade at debian.org>
encfs
Raphael Bossek <bossekr at debian.org>
xsd
Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org>
vegastrike (U)
Fathi Boudra <fabo at debian.org>
akonadi (U)
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdeedu (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdeplasma-addons (U)
kdesdk (U)
Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta at debian.org>
monotone (U)
Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org>
hugin (U)
luxrender
pingus (U)
Luca Bruno <lucab at debian.org>
nemiver
Richard Antony Burton <richardaburton at gmail.com>
kicad (U)
Ben Burton <bab at debian.org>
regina-normal
Ross Burton <ross at debian.org>
exmap (U)
Luk Claes <luk at debian.org>
schroot (U)
Andrea Corradi <lash at unstable.it>
nemiver (U)
LI Daobing <lidaobing at gmail.com>
openbabel (U)
Debian buildd-tools Developers <buildd-tools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
schroot
Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
asc
bulletml
lordsawar
love
performous
pingus
ultrastar-ng
vegastrike
Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
gpsdrive
Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras at lists.alioth.debian.org>
ktorrent
Debian LyX Maintainers <pkg-lyx-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
lyx
Debian Multimedia Team <debian-multimedia at lists.debian.org>
ardour
Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
enblend-enfuse
hugin
Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
pythonmagick
Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org>
akonadi
kdebase-workspace
kdeedu
kdenetwork
kdepim
kdepimlibs
kdeplasma-addons
kdesdk
kdewebdev
Debian VDR Team <pkg-vdr-dvb-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
vdr-plugin-live
Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
mumble
twinkle
Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
sofa-framework
Debichem Team <debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
avogadro
openbabel
Barry deFreese <bddebian at comcast.net>
asc (U)
Barry deFreese <bdefreese at debian.org>
lordsawar (U)
Cédric Delfosse <cedric at debian.org>
stellarium
Alexander Dreyer <adreyer at gmx.de>
polybori (U)
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
quantlib
quantlib-swig
rquantlib
Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org>
ardour (U)
Bartosz Fenski <fenio at debian.org>
asc (U)
Vincent Fourmond <fourmond at debian.org>
vegastrike (U)
Vedran FuraÄ <vedranf at riteh.hr>
bfilter
Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth at gmail.com>
pythonmagick (U)
Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com>
gnuradio
Tobias Grimm <tg at e-tobi.net>
vdr-plugin-live (U)
Debian QA Group <packages at qa.debian.org>
anymeal
d4x
licq
sfftobmp
sffview
soci
Thomas Günther <tom at toms-cafe.de>
vdr-plugin-live (U)
Christoph Haas <haas at debian.org>
pdns (U)
pdns-recursor (U)
Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com>
fslview (U)
Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com>
fsl
fslview
Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>
enblend-enfuse (U)
Varun Hiremath <varun at debian.org>
agave
pdfedit
Sven Hoexter <sven at timegate.de>
lyx (U)
Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
dvswitch
Michael Janssen <jamuraa at debian.org>
player
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32 at debian.org>
libftdi
Steffen Joeris <white at debian.org>
dc-qt
Thomas Jollans <thomas at jollans.com>
xmms2 (U)
Robert Jordens <jordens at debian.org>
ardour (U)
Julien Jorge <julien_jorge at yahoo.fr>
plee-the-bear
Muammar El Khatib <muammarelkhatib at gmail.com>
cegui-mk2
Kilian Krause <kilian at debian.org>
twinkle (U)
Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
geordi
Jonne Lehtinen <jms at modeemi.fi>
xmms2 (U)
Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org>
schroot (U)
Robert Lemmen <robertle at semistable.com>
noiz2sa
Richard Levitte <richard at levitte.org>
monotone (U)
Arthur Loiret <aloiret at debian.org>
luabind
Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <ana at debian.org>
akonadi (U)
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdeedu (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdeplasma-addons (U)
kdesdk (U)
kdewebdev (U)
Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
schroot (U)
Robert Luberda <robert at debian.org>
subcommander
Ola Lundqvist <opal at debian.org>
source-highlight
Mikael Magnusson <mikma at users.sourceforge.net>
twinkle (U)
Debian PowerDNS Maintainers <powerdns-debian at workaround.org>
pdns
pdns-recursor
Jose Luis Blanco (University of Malaga) <joseluisblancoc at gmail.com>
mrpt
Jordan Mantha <laserjock at ubuntu.com>
avogadro (U)
Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty at debian.org>
twinkle (U)
Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org>
mumble (U)
Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
vegastrike (U)
Andreas Metzler <ametzler at debian.org>
hugin (U)
Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>
gnash (U)
Samuel Mimram <smimram at debian.org>
exmap
Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl>
pdns (U)
pdns-recursor (U)
Debian Maintainers for Monotone <monotone-debian at nongnu.org>
monotone
David MartÃnez Moreno <ender at debian.org>
aqsis
glob2
k3d
Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex at debian.org>
scribus-ng
Thorvald Natvig <slicer at users.sourceforge.net>
mumble (U)
Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org>
lyx (U)
Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb at zoy.org>
asc (U)
openvrml
vegastrike (U)
David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>
libopenraw
pinot
Patrick Patterson <ppatters at debian.org>
pathfinder
Giorgio Pioda <gfwp at ticino.com>
peless
Daniel J. Priem <danielpriem at flexserv.de>
kicad (U)
Mark Purcell <msp at debian.org>
twinkle (U)
Andreas Putzo <andreas at putzo.net>
gpsdrive (U)
Wolfram Quester <wolfi at sigxcpu.org>
inkscape
Martin Quinson <mquinson at debian.org>
widelands
Florian Ragwitz <rafl at debian.org>
xmms2
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar at debian.org>
lordsawar (U)
Simon Richter <sjr at debian.org>
asio
dammit
debian-xcontrol
Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne at inoutbox.com>
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdeedu (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdesdk (U)
Miriam Ruiz <little_miry at yahoo.es>
bulletml (U)
gnash
love (U)
performous (U)
pingus (U)
ultrastar-ng (U)
Alexander Sack <asac at jwsdot.com>
gnash (U)
Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto at connexer.com>
luabind (U)
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>
fusecompress
Daniel Schepler <schepler at debian.org>
kdeedu (U)
Alexander Schmehl <tolimar at debian.org>
asc (U)
Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt at debian.org>
vdr-plugin-live (U)
Carlo Segre <segre at debian.org>
objcryst-fox
Gürkan Sengün <gurkan at phys.ethz.ch>
evolvotron
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo at debian.org>
barry
twinkle (U)
Clément Stenac <zorglub at debian.org>
mkvtoolnix
Jens Taprogge <jlt at taprogge.org>
xmms2 (U)
Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge at debian.org>
widelands (U)
Debian Kicad Team <kicad-devel at lists.mose.flexserv.de>
kicad
Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
keysafe
Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>
akonadi (U)
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdeplasma-addons (U)
ktorrent (U)
Xavier Vello <xavier.vello at gmail.com>
kdewebdev (U)
Sune Vuorela <debian at pusling.com>
akonadi (U)
kdebase-workspace (U)
kdeedu (U)
kdenetwork (U)
kdepim (U)
kdepimlibs (U)
kdeplasma-addons (U)
kdesdk (U)
kdewebdev (U)
Peter De Wachter <pdewacht at gmail.com>
bulletml (U)
Anders Waldenborg <anders at 0x63.nu>
xmms2 (U)
Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix.com>
monotone (U)
Torsten Werner <twerner at debian.org>
agave (U)
libavg
pdfedit (U)
Bernd Zeimetz <bzed at debian.org>
pythonmagick (U)
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