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Major Description
The boost_system stub was been a library stub since 1.69 and was removed in 1.89.
Debian sid now has 1.90 and there isn't a libboost-system-dev package.
As far back as the earliest Debian supported version (1.74.0.3) its a stub.
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/libboost-system1.74-dev/filelist
root@4ed0c1311bb9:/# dpkg -L libboost-system1.74-dev
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/.
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/usr
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/usr/lib
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_system-1.74.0
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_system-1.74.0/boost_system-config-version.cmake
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_system-1.74.0/boost_system-config.cmake
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_system-1.74.0/libboost_system-variant-shared.cmake
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/boost_system-1.74.0/libboost_system-variant-static.cmake
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.a
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/usr/share
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/usr/share/doc
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/usr/share/doc/libboost-system1.74-dev
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/usr/share/doc/libboost-system1.74-dev/NEWS.Debian.gz
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/usr/share/doc/libboost-system1.74-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
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/usr/share/doc/libboost-system1.74-dev/copyright
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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so
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root@4ed0c1311bb9:/# ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.a
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-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1164 May 19 2023 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.a
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root@4ed0c1311bb9:/# ar -t /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.a
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error_code.o
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root@4ed0c1311bb9:/# nm -g /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.a
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error_code.o:
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0000000000000000 T _ZN5boost6system23dummy_exported_functionEv
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As such its an unnecessary dependency. Its functionality was handled in the header files (libboost(version-dev).
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Issue Links
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MCOL-6309 boost system dependency isn't available on Ubuntu 26.04 so isn't buildable there
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- In Review
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- Closed
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