[Backport release-24.11] libbitcoin{,-client,-explorer,-network,-protocol}: drop; boost175: drop #359101
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
![github-actions[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/15368?s=60&v=4){kind=small}
These are the last packages in the tree that depend on Boost 1.75. There hasn’t been a release since 2023; upstream have stated in <libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system#1234> that they do not plan to maintain the current version, and are currently working on a backwards‐incompatible major update. Nothing in the tree uses these libraries. The only other software distributions on Repology packaging them are YACP and the AUR, neither of which has had an update since 2019. They were removed from Ubuntu after 16.04, and have more recently been removed from [SlackBuilds.org] and [Homebrew] with the same reasoning that they’re keeping Boost 1.75 around unnecessarily and no packaged software wants them. [SlackBuilds.org]: SlackBuildsOrg/slackbuilds@17c7d0e [Homebrew]: Homebrew/homebrew-core#157427 Since these packages are also unmaintained in Nixpkgs, let’s just drop them and if anyone wants to package the 4.x version when it’s out they can re‐add it. (cherry picked from commit c983d7b)
Obsolete version with no remaining users in the tree. Already removed by other distributions. (cherry picked from commit fb2dd4a)
13 tasks
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Bot-based backport to
release-24.11, triggered by a label in #358867.