Suggests libboost-serialization-dev instead of Recommends

[Christophe Dumez]

Binary package hint: libboost-dev

Hi,

I tried to compile libtorrent 0.10 (http://libtorrent.sf.net) on my Ubuntu Dapper with the following commands:
> ./configure --disable-debug
> make clean
> make
>

The compiler produces the fallowing error messages:
> /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/index_loader.hpp:21:39: error:
> boost/serialization/nvp.hpp: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/include/boost/multi_index_container.hpp:46,
> from storage.cpp:52:
> /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/archive_constructed.hpp:20:49:
> error: boost/serialization/serialization.hpp: No such file or directory
> In file included from storage.cpp:52:

On of my libboost header is asking for a header in libboost-serialization-dev but it wasn't installed as a dependency. This is a problem. I thought at first that the problem came from libtorrent but the error doesn't come from a libtorrent header. It comes from a boost header included by libtorrent.

Boost is now splitted in multiple small packages but I think you may have forgot some dependencies.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

libboost-dev Suggests plenty of other -dev packages.

But they should probably be Recommends instead. Especially
since apt will install Recommends now.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Why just a 'Recommends' and not a 'Depends' ? I think one of the libboost libraries lack a dependency to libboost-serialization-dev (the package that include /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/archive_constructed.hpp : I don't know which one it is).

Otherwise, the programs depdending on the package including archive_constructed.hpp won't compile if serialization is not installed...

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

localhost# dlocate /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/archive_constructed.hpp
libboost-dev: /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/archive_constructed.hpp

localhost# grep -r serialization.hpp /usr/include/boost/multi_index/detail/archive_constructed.hpp
#include <boost/serialization/serialization.hpp>

localhost# dlocate /usr/include/boost/serialization/serialization.hpp
libboost-serialization-dev: /usr/include/boost/serialization/serialization.hpp

You have an include in one of files included in libboost-dev that will fail if serialization is not installed. Hence, I think libboost-dev should depend on libboost-serialization-dev.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package boost - 1.34.1-15ubuntu1

---------------
boost (1.34.1-15ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: LP: #321789
    - GCCXMLParser.py: Use ElementTree from the python2.5 standard
      library.
  * Closes LP: #57196

boost (1.34.1-15) unstable; urgency=low

  * patches/0001-boost.mpl-gcc-4.4-fixes.patch: New. Fixes preprocessor
    usage. Closes: #505597.

  * patches/pending-relaxed_heap.patch: New. Include <climits> to obtain
    CHAR_BIT; thanks to Charles Blundell for the patch. Closes: #495204.

 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:37:06 +0530