Please add libboost-graph-parallel-dev, libboost-mpi-dev and libboost-mpi-python-dev, dropped from boost-defaults

[Fabrice Coutadeur]

Hi,

libboost-graph-parallel-dev, libboost-mpi-dev and libboost-mpi-python-dev has been dropped from boost-default, because of mpi packages and dependent been dropped from boost1.42.
Now that those mpi packages are built, the non versioned ones should be built again, but not in boost-defaults (as it is in main).
This can be done in this package (my recommendation) or in a separate new package (called for example boost-defaults-mpi).

So I'm requesting a Feature Freeze Exception to add those packages, and after, updates the packages that are using some variant of the boost mpi packages (I found at least one: life).

thanks,
Fabrice

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Proposed changes:
diff -Nru boost-mpi-source1.42-1.42.0/debian/control boost-mpi-source1.42-1.42.0
/debian/control
--- boost-mpi-source1.42-1.42.0/debian/control 2010-10-18 15:14:49.000000000 +0
000
+++ boost-mpi-source1.42-1.42.0/debian/control 2011-02-27 06:16:36.000000000 +0
000
@@ -124,3 +124,57 @@
  techniques to maintain maximal efficiency.
  .
  This package provides Python Bindings to the C++ interface.
+
+Package: libboost-graph-parallel-dev
+Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/graph_parallel/
+Architecture: any
+Section: libdevel
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libboost-graph-parallel1.42-dev
+Description: generic graph components and algorithms in C++ (default version)
+ This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
+ .
+ The Parallel Boost Graph Library is an extension to the Boost Graph Library
+ (BGL) for parallel and distributed computing. It offers distributed graphs
+ and graph algorithms to exploit coarse-grained parallelism along with
+ parallel algorithms that exploit fine-grained parallelism, while retaining
+ the same interfaces as the (sequential) BGL. Code written using the sequential
+ BGL should be easy to parallelize with the parallel BGL.
+ .
+ This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
+ Boost version (currently 1.42).
+
+Package: libboost-mpi-dev
+Homepage: http://www.boost.org/doc/html/mpi.html
+Architecture: any
+Section: libdevel
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libboost-mpi1.42-dev
+Description: C++ interface to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) (default vers
ion)
+ This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
+ .
+ The Boost.MPI library provides a C++ interface to MPI that
+ supports modern C++ development styles, including complete support for
+ user-defined data types and C++ Standard Library types, arbitrary function
+ objects for collective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library
+ techniques to maintain maximal efficiency.
+ .
+ This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
+ Boost version (currently 1.42).
+
+Package: libboost-mpi-python-dev
+Homepage: http://www.boost.org/doc/html/mpi.html
+Architecture: any
+Section: libdevel
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libboost-mpi1.42-dev
+Description: Python interface to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) (default v
ersion)
+ This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
+ .
+ The Boost.MPI library provides a C++ interface to MPI that
+ supports modern C++ development styles, including complete support for
+ user-defined data types and C++ Standard Library types, arbitrary function
+ objects for collective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library
+ techniques to maintain maximal efficiency.
+ .
+ This package provides Python Bindings to the C++ interface.
+ .
+ This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
+ Boost version (currently 1.42).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is just adding (now) missing metapackages, so it is not really a feature. Please go ahead.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package boost-mpi-source1.42 - 1.42.0-4ubuntu2

---------------
boost-mpi-source1.42 (1.42.0-4ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: added packages dropped from boost-defaults, to make easier
    transitions: libboost-graph-parallel-dev, libboost-mpi-dev and
    libboost-mpi-python-dev (LP: #726360)
  * Put again in sync with boost1.42 by using the same version number (packages
    were not installable because of the strict version dependency) and adding
    patch gcc4.5-fixes.patch. The binary packages are installable again.
  * patches/gcc4.5-fixes.patch:
    - Add patch from SVN r61647 to fix compilation problems with gcc 4.5
  * debian/rules: add dh_strip to strip debug info from librarie (LP: #672994).
    This was dropped from boost package in main but has to be put again for
    universe version of boost packages.
 -- Fabrice Coutadeur <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:08:30 +0000