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boost vs boost1.37

Bug #338893 reported by Bartosz Kosiorek

This bug report was converted into a question: question #63317: boost vs boost1.37.

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Boost
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boost1.37 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The name of this package is very strange :
boost1.37_1.37.0.orig.tar.gz

I don't understand it.
The latest version "boost" is 1.34 :
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boost/

but the latest version of "boost1.37" is 1.37.0-3ubuntu2:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boost1.37

Why this was done in such strange way?

Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)
Changed in boost1.37:
status: New → Invalid
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Anderson Lizardo (lizardo) wrote :

As far as I know, that's because Boost's API is usually not backwards compatible between releases, therefore some package that builds with boost 1.37 may not build with boost 1.38 (without changes), and so on.

For more details on the issue, see this thread on a Debian mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/02/msg00614.html

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