Bug#1129774: paraview: FTBFS: Could NOT find Boost: Found unsuitable version "1.90.0"

[Drew Parsons]

On 2026-03-22 16:30, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> Package: paraview
>> Followup-For: Bug #1129774
>> 
>> I can't reproduce this bug as reported.
>> It's configuring fine with libboost-all-dev 1.90.0.1
>> and proceeding to build.
>> 
>> It's failing build due to the upgrade to Qt 6.10, but that's a
>> different issue.
> 
> I promise that it failed to build when I reported it.

I don't doubt it. Our colleagues had to make some effort to push the 
boost upgrade through. Perhaps the problem was a bug in one of the other 
dependencies that now got fixed.

> Please report the different issue as a new bug (or use affects if
> appropriate), and allow me to use debbisect to put this bug where it
> belongs (probably closed because I have a successful build on 
> 2026-03-10).

It was addressed in MR, so I've uploaded paraview 6.0.1+dfsg1-7 with the 
fix.
Let us know if your tests reproduce the boost error with 6.0.1+dfsg1-7.

Drew