It is in the tree for some months and it seems to not cause many problems as I also see in reported bugs :/ Thanks!
Let's get this started.
An automated check of this bug failed - repoman reported dependency errors (27 lines truncated): > dependency.bad dev-libs/boost/boost-1.63.0.ebuild: DEPEND: ppc(default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0) ['>=virtual/mpi-2.0-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,cxx,threads]'] > dependency.bad dev-libs/boost/boost-1.63.0.ebuild: RDEPEND: ppc(default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0) ['>=virtual/mpi-2.0-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,cxx,threads]'] > dependency.bad dev-libs/boost/boost-1.63.0.ebuild: DEPEND: ppc(default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop) ['>=virtual/mpi-2.0-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,cxx,threads]']
ia64 stable
Stable on alpha.
arm stable
ppc64 stable
ppc stable
x86 stable
Stable on amd64
sparc stable (thanks to Rolf Eike Beer)
hppa ping
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8afb8337e6d78103606f2fdf2ccfdecb4e649b3e commit 8afb8337e6d78103606f2fdf2ccfdecb4e649b3e Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-20 02:55:58 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-20 23:02:27 +0000 dev-libs/boost: Drop 1.62.0-r1 hppa stabilisation timeout. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/624662 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6 dev-libs/boost/Manifest | 1 - dev-libs/boost/boost-1.62.0-r1.ebuild | 444 ---------------------------------- 2 files changed, 445 deletions(-)}
arm64 is doing 644808 instead, which will fix this as well. Last arch, closing