On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 08:34:26AM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:

> I just did a local re-build of vtk9 and indeed the file now contains 
> 
>  find_package(Boost 
>    1.90.0 
>    EXACT
> 
> Which confirms your hypothesis.
>
> > Therefore, I suggest a rebuild of the vtk package with the new version 
> > of boost, this should update the VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake and 
> > then all the package that depends on vtk9 may rebuild without any problem.
> 
> I agree.  This feels like a binary NMU rebuild would suffice, so I'll make 
> that request.

Before you request a binNMU, I have a simple question:

Should we really use EXACT there?

Maybe this would be a good opportunity to stop requiring exact versions.
(maybe >= would be better, but I don't know enough CMake to say how to 
implement that)

Thanks.

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