Merge lp://staging/~sil2100/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-touch-remove-boost-hard-version-dep into lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-touch.wily
| Status: | Merged |
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| Merged at revision: | 309 |
| Proposed branch: | lp://staging/~sil2100/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-touch-remove-boost-hard-version-dep |
| Merge into: | lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-touch.wily |
| Diff against target: |
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sdk-libs-dev (+0/-1) |
| To merge this branch: | bzr merge lp://staging/~sil2100/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-touch-remove-boost-hard-version-dep |
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Try not to depend on an explicit boost version in sdk-libs-dev as there are no reasons to do so. This will unblock a few packages and make main boost transitions a bit less painful (seeds won't require bumping with each release).
Description of the change
Try not to depend on an explicit boost version in sdk-libs-dev as there are no reasons to do so. This will unblock a few packages and make main boost transitions a bit less painful (seeds won't require bumping with each release).
Currently this blocks many packages from migrating to the release pocket. The issue is that currently sdk-libs-dev deps on libboost1.55-dev. The main seed branch had this dep bumped to libboost1.58-dev but this is still in -proposed (and the transition will take a long time to finish). There's no real reason to depend on a specific version here, so we can simply use the dependency package instead. There should be no consequences of this change (besides the positive ones)
| Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote | # |
If there's no reason to depend on a specific version of boost, why do we depend on it at all? I understand the argument for why we shouldn't be depending on a specific boost version is that the boost interfaces should not be directly exposed as part of our SDK. "Not exposed" == "not depended upon".