Dev package since v. 0.51 should depend on boost headers

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

libboost-dev is probably the package to depend on

please test the package on ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa

Hello Mateusz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted yaml-cpp into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaml-cpp/0.5.2-4ubuntu1~16.04.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

obvious check done, fixed.

Thanks for verifying! From the formal POV, could you please report which version has been used for validation?

Installing 0.5.2-4ubuntu1~16.04.4 dragged in boost too

(on xenial system)

The verification of the Stable Release Update for yaml-cpp has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package yaml-cpp - 0.5.2-4ubuntu1~16.04.4

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yaml-cpp (0.5.2-4ubuntu1~16.04.4) xenial; urgency=medium

  * SRU the package to xenial, to fix various issues
    that makes the package unusable:
    - LP: #1318940: adding boost dependency
    - LP: #1646914: fix API incompatibility

yaml-cpp (0.5.2-4ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/303.patch:
    fix build failures when using yaml-cpp
    (upstream pull request 303)
    - see debian bug #847099)

yaml-cpp (0.5.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Make the build reproducible (Closes: #808714)
  * Add libboost-dev dependency (Closes: #812851)
  * Fix yaml-cpp 0.5.2 issue (Closes: #814499)
  * Fix lintian warnings: spelling, standards-version, and Vcs-Git

yaml-cpp (0.5.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Work around bug in googletest causing segfault with gcc-6.
    (Closes: #812284)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:04:33 +0200