Differential D7949

Update libboost to 1.72
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Authored by fmonteiro on Jan 2 2020, 2:35 AM.

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Build libtorrent-raster against libboost 1.7.2
Build qbittorrent and run.

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fmonteiro requested review of this revision.Jan 2 2020, 2:35 AM

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fmonteiro added a child revision: D7950: Update libtorrent-rasterbar to 1.2.3.Jan 2 2020, 2:39 AM

fmonteiro edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Jan 2 2020, 2:44 AM

I'm not sure if I should bump every package using boost as I'm new to Solus environment.

In D7949#126932, @fmonteiro wrote:

I'm not sure if I should bump every package using boost as I'm new to Solus environment.

Since the ABI version changed, every single package that uses libboost will need to be rebuilt against it and tested. However, we don't require a patch submission for a rebuild, only if something other than the release number must be changed for each package.

But before you go through all that effort, what is this even needed for? libboost upgrades are always painful and frequently require changes to the source of dependent projects or at least temporary patches to existing releases.

In D7949#126935, @DataDrake wrote:

In D7949#126932, @fmonteiro wrote:

I'm not sure if I should bump every package using boost as I'm new to Solus environment.

Since the ABI version changed, every single package that uses libboost will need to be rebuilt against it and tested. However, we don't require a patch submission for a rebuild, only if something other than the release number must be changed for each package.

But before you go through all that effort, what is this even needed for? libboost upgrades are always painful and frequently require changes to the source of dependent projects or at least temporary patches to existing releases.

I would like to update libboost mostly because bug fixes, but I didn't know libboost upgrades are always painful.

I will abandon this revision because It's probably requires to make changes to many packages such as libtorrent-rasterbar, qbittorrent, etc.. thus I'm leaving to the update to @JoshStrobl.