trilinos: libboost-system-dev package is obsolete with boost 1.89 and newer

[Markus Blatt]

Am Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 03:01:34PM +0000 schrieb Matthias Klose:
>Package: src:trilinos
>Version: 16.1.0-4
>Severity: important
>Tags: sid forky
>User: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
>Usertags: boost1.90
>
>This package either build-depends on libboost-system-dev or depends on it.
>
>The boost system library was removed upstream in 1.89, and is empty since 1.69.
>If this library is referenced in the build system, the library can just be
>removed from the build system, and the package should continue to build
>for any boost version newer than 1.69, including boost1.83 in Debian.

Hi,

I have created a fix in [1] and need a sponsor.

Best,

Markus

[1] <https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/trilinos/-/merge_requests/2>