[arch-general] Please update boost from [extra] - PKGBUILD attached

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
> On 25.11.2009 00:45, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> On 11/25/2009 01:39 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>>> Boost in [extra] has been out-of-date since 1830 (and marked as such)
>>> and even though I mailed the maintainer two weeks ago no update
>>> happened.
>>> Here is my updated PKGBUILD for 1.41.0 which is actually a bit neater
>>> than before since no silly patches are required anymore.
>>> I'm currently running this package and see no trouble. Please use this
>>> to update boost in [extra] :).
>>>
>>> -- Sven-Hendrik
>>
>> if it where that simple :). boost update require a lot of packages to
>> be rebuild. we have a rebuild in progress in testing and maybe after
>> that we are bumping that too.
>>
> It's only 29 packages though and boost usually changes with backwards
> compatibility in mind. Am I being naive? :)

If the soname changes, then everything needs to be rebuilt. We try to
keep one large rebuild in testing at a time. Currently we have
rebuilds for heimdal in there.