Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Alastair McKinstry Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Giovanni Mascellani , 972213@bugs.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Thu Oct 15 20:15:12 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.2 Reply-To: Alastair McKinstry , 972213@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: Debian Boost Team X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 972213 X-Debian-Pr-Package: boost1.71 X-Debian-Pr-Source: boost1.71 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 27; hammy, 150; neutral, 123; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--H*o:Debian, 0.000-+--debianpython, 0.000-+--debian-python, 0.000-+--sk:x86_64, 0.000-+--sk:x86_64- X-Cnfs-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=eL1jtDh1 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=0Iw1gYdl+gX5BU/pizvEUA==:117 a=0Iw1gYdl+gX5BU/pizvEUA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=afefHYAZSVUA:10 a=xNf9USuDAAAA:8 a=Ug2Xn3OAAAAA:8 a=DbY_ARH8sFXxtuvzgFoA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=SEwjQc04WA-l_NiBhQ7s:22 a=jup2QEcnA-U7-sUVP0FS:22 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/82.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Cmae-Envelope: MS4wfNV+kvljSA/5H4aUepVM8bdMEMyMmw7LZg3bxk+z3sGc0jjoZ/pFhAcu12CPl6z5PhvKfXIbVx3G8t0rMp9TyLLLW9T7PQGtskToalvMMVC22MIPQHAB pWw6InhFHwPe7Esd6UFZle3FLG9gwNsPwL1mSxleg3UWWKjT06plebSrVIjNAuNMja/jm3+gQxx76S9bnOp+LjQY8UjTsol7C8yJty+g4TzYg+9g/UFtHJqi 8qW4knHjLAHiZDRKhirUpQ== X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at buxtehude; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:05 UTC X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1627500 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 46 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:03:25 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <9c1ee71f-65bc-ec2c-69c1-b666ecf0575b@debian.org> X-Original-References: <160268352629.28072.10388202521171168675.reportbug@mail.sceal.ie> <759c67f6-8038-fc16-2a3e-e259dc63609b@debian.org> <160268352629.28072.10388202521171168675.reportbug@mail.sceal.ie> <759c67f6-8038-fc16-2a3e-e259dc63609b@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1028747 linux.debian.maint.python:12941 On 15/10/2020 08:13, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Hi, > > Il 14/10/20 15:52, Alastair McKinstry ha scritto: >> I maintain the package "ecflow" which uses libboost-python-dev. Now >> with the transition to python3.9, ecflow will support (where >> possible) multiple python versions. Currently it supports python3.8 >> but not python3.9 ; this may be fixed in a binNMU or next version, >> but I cannot tell whether my failure to build python3.9 support for >> ecflow is due to missing py3.9 support in boost, or a bug in my >> packaging. > BTW, a binNMU was just requested to add Python 3.9 support. > >> Can some mechanism be added to enable tracability ? > In general, Boost supports all the Python versions currently supported > by the Python team, except that someone has to file a binNMU for them to > appear once a new Python version is packaged. To check which Python > versions are supported by a specific package version, it is enough to > check the content of the libboost-python1.71.0 package (replace 1.71.0 > with future versions where applicable): > > $ dpkg -L libboost-python1.71.0 | grep libboost_python > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python38.so.1.71.0 > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python39.so.1.71.0 > > (until yesterday you did not have the python39 variant) > > Does this answer your question? > > Giovanni. Not really. This is probably better discussed on debian-python. The point was that there is a lack of a good mechanism to see which packages provide py39 support, etc. In principle my package ecflow just needs a rebuild after the boost is rebuilt, but tracking if this actually works, or add a particular dependency to enable automatic rebuild/tracking. Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry, , , https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.