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Re: Boost is annoying



On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> 
wrote:
> It seems that everytime Boost is updated, packages break, perhaps at a rate
> faster than they get fixed (e.g. games/flightgear remains broken)
>
> I'm seeing 3 more packages recently (likely) broken because of boost update:
> editors/Sigil
> games/wesnoth
> cad/openscad
>
> Should there be some kind of policy specifically for Boost?

Maybe.  What's your proposal?

Explicitly versioning all the Boost packages would be an option.

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv


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