[Tracking] boost 1.89 update build failures

[philiptaron]

Boost (specifically, the boost name) was updated from 1.87 to 1.89 in #460515.

Some packages have broken as a result.

Known so far:

• arc_unpacker @midchildan
• innoextract (No maintainers)
• openscad: openscad: apply boost 1.89 patch #493813
• performous performous: fix build #497150
• srsran @hexagonal-sun
• lucene++：lucene++: 3.0.9 -> 3.0.9-unstable-2026-01-25 #489631
• asio asio_1_32_0 @Aleksanaa
• freecad
• freeorion

[philiptaron]

cc @doronbehar

[trofi]

• innoextract:

• proposed staging workaround by pinning back: innoextract: pin to boost188 to fix the build #485929
• upstream fix in progress (not fixed yet): CMake: Fix build with Boost 1.89.0 dscharrer/innoextract#199

[vcunat]

asio*: as the library apparently got included in boost 1.89, I'm not sure what's the best way forward here. (I don't know this ecosystem.)

[doronbehar]

asio*: as the library apparently got included in boost 1.89, I'm not sure what's the best way forward here. (I don't know this ecosystem.)

Looking at the link, it doesn't seem like they will stop maintaining the distribution of it from their site, so I don't think we should stop maintaining our asio or put an asio alias.

[prismatic-koi]

Just wanted to add that this seems to also affect ncmpcpp and openscad, pinning to boost187 in an overlay works as a temporary workaround.

[snrubthinks]

Also affects sunshine, although it looks to be fixed upstream in the 2026 pre-releases