diff --git a/srcpkgs/dnsdist/patches/boost-1.91.patch b/srcpkgs/dnsdist/patches/boost-1.91.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ffb37cdccff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/dnsdist/patches/boost-1.91.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+--- a/dnsdist-lua.cc
++++ b/dnsdist-lua.cc
+@@ -3083,7 +3083,7 @@ static void setupLuaConfig(LuaContext& l
+         customName = std::optional(*optCustomName);
+       }
+       if (!customName) {
+-        boost::optional<declare_metric_opts_t> vars = {boost::get<declare_metric_opts_t>(opts.get())};
++        boost::optional<declare_metric_opts_t> vars = boost::get<declare_metric_opts_t>(opts.get());
+         getOptionalValue<std::string>(vars, "customName", customName);
+         getOptionalValue<bool>(vars, "withLabels", withLabels);
+         checkAllParametersConsumed("declareMetric", vars);
+@@ -3106,7 +3106,7 @@ static void setupLuaConfig(LuaContext& l
+       step = *custom_step;
+     }
+     else {
+-      boost::optional<update_metric_opts_t> vars = {boost::get<update_metric_opts_t>(incOpts)};
++      boost::optional<update_metric_opts_t> vars = boost::get<update_metric_opts_t>(incOpts);
+       getOptionalValue<uint64_t>(vars, "step", step);
+       getOptionalValue<LuaAssociativeTable<std::string>>(vars, "labels", labels);
+       checkAllParametersConsumed("incMetric", vars);
+@@ -3128,7 +3128,7 @@ static void setupLuaConfig(LuaContext& l
+       step = *custom_step;
+     }
+     else {
+-      boost::optional<update_metric_opts_t> vars = {boost::get<update_metric_opts_t>(decOpts)};
++      boost::optional<update_metric_opts_t> vars = boost::get<update_metric_opts_t>(decOpts);
+       getOptionalValue<uint64_t>(vars, "step", step);
+       getOptionalValue<LuaAssociativeTable<std::string>>(vars, "labels", labels);
+       checkAllParametersConsumed("decMetric", vars);
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dnsdist/template b/srcpkgs/dnsdist/template
index 1743493eee8..d5077287e21 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dnsdist/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dnsdist/template
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ configure_args="-Ddnscrypt=enabled -Dreproducible=true -Dsnmp=enabled
  -Dyaml=disabled --sysconfdir=/etc/dnsdist"
 conf_files="/etc/dnsdist/dnsdist.conf"
 hostmakedepends="cmake pkg-config python3 python3-yaml tar"
-makedepends="boost-devel fstrm-devel libcap-devel libedit-devel
+makedepends="boost-headers fstrm-devel libcap-devel libedit-devel
  libsodium-devel lua54-devel net-snmp-devel nghttp2-devel openssl-devel
  re2-devel"
 short_desc="Dynamic DNS loadbalancer"