On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hallo Dave,

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Dave Johansen wrote:
> I just noticed that the boost141 package had been previously available in
> Fedora, but it has since been removed (
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5291 ). I'm not familiar with the
> recent changes in Boost, but is the API stable enough to support a package
> to build on EL 5/6 and Fedora?

the boost141 was more by accident in Fedora. I needed the package for
Zarafa in Fedora EPEL 4 and 5. The package is a rebuild of boost from
RHEL 6 with adaptions to make it installable in parallel with the old
boost versions that RHEL 4 and 5 ship.

My personal goal is to keep the boost141 package in sync with RHEL 6
one - so there should be no ABI/API changes in Fedora EPEL 5 for this
package ever.

I am also not following up this boost141 or boost148 or whatever topic
for Fedora as Zarafa (the package why I needed this) is able to handle
more recent boost versions now - however nothing older than boost141.

It seems that having the same version available in both EL 5 and 6 probably satisfies the need, and Fedora is ok with just having the latest version, so I guess it makes sense to not have boost141 in Fedora.
Thanks,
Dave