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libasio-dev lacks dependency to libboost-date-time-dev

Bug #277840 reported by Nicolás Alvarez
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: libasio-dev

I installed libasio-dev, and included one of its headers from my program. The compiler gave this error:

In file included from /usr/include/asio/impl/io_service.ipp:24,
                 from /usr/include/asio/io_service.hpp:498,
                 from /home/nicolas/src/test-server/server.h:11,
                 from /home/nicolas/src/test-server/testserver.h:4,
                 from /home/nicolas/src/test-server/testserver.cpp:1:
/usr/include/asio/detail/epoll_reactor.hpp:29:59: error: boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time_types.hpp: No such file or directory

libasio-dev depends on libboost-dev but not on libboost-date-time-dev.

This is the only problem I actually stumbled upon (so far), but include/asio/read_until.hpp is including boost/regex.hpp, which also in a separate package in Ubuntu. That dependency is probably needed as well.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Looks like this was fixed in Debian with libasio 1.4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514076

It's too late to sync that version in, however we can work around it easily for Jaunty. One other issue I've noticed is that libasio-dev can be satisfied by just libboost-dev, which in Jaunty means it could be satisfied by libboost 1.34. But libboost 1.34 doesn't have asio in it! That came at libboost 1.35.

So there's two bugs here - libasio should depend on at least libboost 1.35-dev or later.

I'll get to work on a fix and try to make a sponsored upload.

Changed in asio (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → scottritchie
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

And here is a fix, however it needs main sponsorship. Thank you for reporting, and thank you in advance for sponsoring!

Changed in asio (Ubuntu):
assignee: scottritchie → nobody
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Nicolás Alvarez (nicolas-alvarez) wrote :

I'm not sure what you mean with "But libboost 1.34 doesn't have asio in it!". boost-asio and asio are independent libraries (basically same code but on different C++ namespaces and different header paths).

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

So why does asio-dev depend on boost at all then? I may have confused things a bit after I saw a build error due to lack of libasio in a package that was building with boost (so maybe the bug is in _that package_ rather than asio-dev)

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Nicolás Alvarez (nicolas-alvarez) wrote :

http://blog.think-async.com/2008/05/boostasio-vs-asio.html

Boost.Asio uses the Boost.System library to provide support for error codes, but *both* Asio and Boost.Asio depend on other Boost libraries like regex and date_time.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Ok fair enough. The change to depend on libboost-date-time-dev is still needed however. I'll make a second debdiff.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Here is a new debdiff with just the debian depends and recommends changes for libasio-dev backported:

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Uploading, thanks. The only change I made was to drop the explicit mention of the maintainer field change from the changelog; per Ubuntu policy section 3.3, "Because it is mandated and very common, it is not necessary or appropriate to document this change in debian/changelog, unless it is the only change involved in the upload."

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package asio - 1.3.1-1ubuntu2

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asio (1.3.1-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * depend on libboost-date-time-dev and recommend libboost-regex-dev
    patch is in debian already and can be dropped at sync (LP: #277840)

 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:02:29 -0700

Changed in asio:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Nicolás Alvarez (nicolas-alvarez) wrote :

No chance of backporting to hardy? Not the new version of asio, just the package dependency fix...

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