Bug#1128136: pagmo: FTBFS with boost 1.90

[Pierre Gruet]

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Hi Anton,

On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:02:54 -0800 gladk at debian.org wrote:
 > Package: src:pagmo
 > Version: 2.19.1-1
 > Severity: important
 > Tags: sid forky ftbfs
 > User: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
 > Usertags: boost1.90
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > pagmo FTBFS with boost 1.90. Note that the FTBFS may not necessarily be
 > connected to boost - please check the build log for the actual cause.
 >
 > Ubuntu has started the rebuild and the status can be tracked here:
 > 
https://transitions.ubuntu.com/html/boost1.90.html#!good,bad,partial,unknown,!notintesting
 > Thanks to them. Please find your package there, after that you can 
see the logs from
 > the failing build.
 >
 > Note: This ticket severity will be increased to RC bug when
 > boost-defaults is switched to 1.90.
 >
 > Additional information: The boost system library was removed upstream 
in 1.89 and is empty since 1.69.
 > If your package depends on or build-depends on libboost-system-dev, 
remove it from
 > build-depends and the build system. See 
https://www.boost.org/releases/1.89.0/ for cmake instructions.
 >
 > Note that libboost-system-dev is "virtually" provided by 
libboost-dev_1.90,
 > but it is better to drop it from build-depends as this will be 
removed in the future.
 >
 >
 > Here is the most probably relevant part of the failing build log:
 >
 >
 >
 > -- Library installation directory: /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu
 > -- TBB found using config mode.
 > -- Required Boost libraries: serialization;unit_test_framework
 > CMake Error at 
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_unit_test_framework-1.90.0/boost_unit_test_framework-config.cmake:102 
(find_package):
 > Could not find a package configuration file provided by "boost_exception"
 > (requested version 1.90.0) with any of the following names:
 >
 > boost_exceptionConfig.cmake
 > boost_exception-config.cmake
 >
 > Add the installation prefix of "boost_exception" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or
 > set "boost_exception_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above 
files.
 > If "boost_exception" provides a separate development package or SDK, be
 > sure it has been installed.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Anton
 >
 >
 >

Thanks for the bug report!

I fail to reproduce the error (with other packages I could), would you 
please be able to provide me with a way to reproduce it when time permits?

Best regards,

-- 
Pierre
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