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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Monday, March 9, 2026 11:13:09 a.m. Central Daylight Time Sebastian Ramacher wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Control: tags -1 moreinfo</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Hi Steve</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> On 2026-03-09 08:43:22 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Package: release.debian.org</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Severity: normal</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > X-Debbugs-Cc: vtk9@packages.debian.org</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Control: affects -1 + src:vtk9</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Usertags: binnmu</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > nmu vtk9_9.5.2+dfsg4-1 . ANY . unstable . -m "Rebuild to capture updated</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Boost library default version. At build time, vtk captures the version</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > of Boost libraries used in its build and generates a cmake file used in</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > downstream builds that looks for that precise version of boost. The</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > boost defaults have recently changed - which makes downstream builds fail</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > (e.g. ITK, Elastix, ANTS). A re-built VTK will pick up the latest boost</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > default."</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I am unable to find these boost dependencies in the -dev packages of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> vtk9. </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">You're right. In fact, I don't even see build-depends on boost packages. That seems strange to me. I've cc'd the active maintainers: should there be a build-depends on boost packages?</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-Steve</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> If there is such a tight requirement on the installed boost</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> version, why doesn't it have dependencies on the boost version it was</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> built with?</p>
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