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#1 2016-08-13 01:35:44
- ishitatsuyuki
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'boost' package have been outdated for 3 months
The maintainer seems to be on military work.
We have to take action since other distributions are starting the plan, and on Arch I can't see any progress.
Boost is widely used and requires a major rebuild, but currently no one is trying to do it.
Any plan on this?
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#2 2016-08-13 04:35:04
- mpan
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Re: 'boost' package have been outdated for 3 months
Have you tried to contacting the maintainer? Nearly 100 packages in the official repo depend directly on Boost — it’s quite possible something is being broken by the update, and devs may need help with that.
Sometimes I seem a bit harsh — don’t get offended too easily!
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#3 2016-08-13 05:10:45
- ishitatsuyuki
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Re: 'boost' package have been outdated for 3 months
@mpan - repeating, he's on military work and doesn't have the time. I couldn't even contact him.
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#4 2016-08-13 11:59:41
- runical
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Re: 'boost' package have been outdated for 3 months
Then the package will be updated when he comes back, although Evangelos Foutras is not the maintainer. You can try Bartłomiej Piotrowski, as he isn't away as far as I know and he is the official maintainer.
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#5 2016-08-13 13:47:21
- hussam
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Re: 'boost' package have been outdated for 3 months
I tried it locally in a test chroot. Not everything that compiled against boost 1.60.0 will compile with the new release.
Fedora is also still at 1.60.0 though they are probably waiting till after F25.
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