Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!news.dns-netz.com!news.freedyn.net!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: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: dparsons@debian.org, Giovanni Mascellani X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Fri Oct 16 09:15:08 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, 25; hammy, 150; neutral, 133; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--debianpolicy, 0.000-+--debian-policy, 0.000-+--H*o:Debian, 0.000-+--sk:mckinst, 0.000-+--U*mckinstry 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=J6M06bHtWTQzS5XZ5hUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=9Qt5PjeEmfsA:10 a=GznaxJUJhEcA: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: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Cmae-Envelope: MS4wfOX6LINdI7fJiGPpILcvExrxJRb3H8suewtp41NOpuwoM6xMp90NY/PCHSJhOQtrGR7IJ1L7tpa58Zu9uUejUZWm2s8X8r0y3n7n8jpSAfjYUNQG6LVF sxMriz0PY2trwW9PsC5o+FyyHmcOpLAsqTy1UXXKREd7DkX1h0shifnPBWfu8EiqWGzho2yeftu+ZMiDu+7wQzd4Q1IYZv7kc44A5vT+JOBV3De9tJk0JSmr 3d13iplUYLX54g4mwu/YXzvS2Lj4yGMdkEJ1eeytaOY= X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1627600 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 52 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: 972213@bugs.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:10:59 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <160268352629.28072.10388202521171168675.reportbug@mail.sceal.ie> <160280958293.174864.15697454085967198930.reportbug@monte.emerall.com> <8afe0d5de795f9b7527155d025857a68@debian.org> <160268352629.28072.10388202521171168675.reportbug@mail.sceal.ie> <8afe0d5de795f9b7527155d025857a68@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1028826 linux.debian.maint.python:12946 On 16/10/2020 09:19, Drew Parsons wrote: > 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 That works. Code can be added that the package fails to rebuild if it can't get the necessary provides. Thanks Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry, , , https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.