Question about boost-libs=1.74.0 and vpn-unlimited

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It seems to be relying on an outdated version, that is no longer available in either the repos or the AUR.

You could try changing this line

boost-libs=1.74.0

to this

boost174-libs
However there's this comment on the AUR page: 
No workaround for boost-libs=1.74 in near sight, though?

Not to my knowledge. They’ve linked to version 1.74 because that’s what’s available on Debian Bullseye. I don’t think it’s possible patch the executable to use 1.81 so’s, but I’d be happy to do so if there was a way. Debian Experimental has 1.81 but I guess that’s years away.

The only think I can think of would be to reach out to them and ask them to not link explicitly to version 1.74, or to statically link Boost.

EDIT:
Corrected.

The package maintainer should be notified so they can correct the PKGBUILD.

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