[Mageia-dev] Update to boost-1.53 ?

[David Walser]

Barry Jackson wrote:
> As mentioned in last week's packager's meeting, there is a problem with 
> our gnuradio package, because upstream have blacklisted boost-1.52.
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8789
> 
> I have spent considerable time test rebuilding all packages from current 
> svn that BuildRequire boost, against boost-1.53 to see if an update of 
> boost is viable. (x86_64 only so far)
> 
> Fixes have been applied to some packages and now there are just two 
> remaining that fail to build:-

Now that it's down to these two, I think this should be done.  libyui is only here for the new MCC which won't be ready at least until mga4, 
and it seems this gnuradio is important to some people, while vegastrike is just a game I think.