Bug 1712550 - boost-nowide should be arch-specific and provide a shared library
Summary: boost-nowide should be arch-specific and provide a shared library
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: boost-nowide
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: James Hogarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-05-21 18:38 UTC by Jason Tibbitts
Modified: 2020-11-24 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 16:42:29 UTC
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Description Jason Tibbitts 2019-05-21 18:38:34 UTC
I have a package which bundles boost-nowide and I'd like to use the Fedora-packaged version instead, but the current state of the package prevents me from doing that.  Please note that I don't know much about boost.  Or C++, really.  But I asked a couple of experts who informed me that I won't be able to use boost-nowide as packaged, because it is packaged incorrectly.

As I understand things, this is packaged as a header-only library (though not properly; see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_packaging_header_only_libraries).  But the problem is that cross-platform code still expects to be able to link against it, and I can understand that expectation.

So I'm not really sure what the proper outcome is, but it does seem like boost-nowide should look pretty much like any other boost subpackage.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:59:43 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 19:18:42 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:14:20 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 16:42:29 UTC
Fedora 31 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-11-24. Fedora 31 is
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