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| From | Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.python |
| Subject | Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support |
| Date | 2020-10-16 10:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <B0tB0-3ag-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <AZPtT-48k-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0mg9-74v-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0rIR-24h-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <AZPtT-48k-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0rIR-24h-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | The Debian Project |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2020-10-16 14:43, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Il 16/10/20 02:53, Drew Parsons ha scritto:
>>
>> Would it make sense to use the Built-Using [1] header?
...
>> [1]
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#additional-source-packages-used-to-build-the-binary-built-using
>
> The precise web page you are linking hints that this use of Built-Using
> would be improper:
>
> "This field should be used only when there are license or DFSG
> requirements to retain the referenced source packages. It should not be
> added solely as a way to locate packages that need to be rebuilt
> against
> newer versions of their build dependencies".
Ah yes, I had a feeling there were more reasons to not prefer this
method!
> That said, I forgot to mention that the Python versions Boost is
> compiled against is also tracked in the package names provided by
> libboost-python1.71.0, which are currently libboost-python1.71.0-py38
> and libboost-python1.71-py39.
>
> Is this better? More in general, there can be dozens of ways to
> advertise which Python versions are used to build Boost.Python, but it
> is not clear to me how this information should be consumed.
That sounds like a useful approach.
The ecflow build could access the provided versions via
dpkg -s libboost-python${BOOST_VERSION} | grep Provides
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Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 03:00 +0200
Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support Giovanni Mascellani <gio@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 08:50 +0200
Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 10:50 +0200
Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 11:20 +0200
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