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Bug#972213: boost1.71: Please indicate some way which python versions you support

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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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