[bug#28690] provide a lib output for boost

[Ludovic Courtès]

Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> skribis:

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Subject: Re: [bug#28690] provide a lib output for boost
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:58:57 +0200
>
>> At any rate, the patch LGTM in principle.  It’ll have to go to
>> ‘core-updates’ though.
>>
>> Thomas, Roel: are you taking care of it?  :-)
>
> I'm happy to push this to core-updates.  What do we do with packages
> requiring boost:lib?   Do we just wait and see which builds fail on
> core-updates, and add `("boost" ,boost "lib") as an input where
> required?

It would be ideal to identify them by building (some of) Boost’s direct
dependencies.  This can be done on master to avoid rebuilding the world,
and then pushed to core-updates.

Thanks,
Ludo’.