Comment 4 for bug 280453

I looked into boost. It has serious issues compiling with even gcc 4.3. These are the upstream bugs about it: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&summary=~4.3&order=priority

There is a patch in the debian sources to work with gcc 4.3, but the debian/Notes file indicates it is incomplete. And of course, 4.3 is not 4.4.

But let's say boost did compile perfectly with 4.4. The changes you'd have to make: You'd have to change the Build-Depends, the rules file, and and all the installed libraries have 'gcc42' in their name, so you'd have to adjust all the .install files.