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This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.13. CMake version
|release| warns when the policy is not set and uses ``OLD`` behavior.
Use the :command:`cmake_policy` command to set it to ``OLD`` or ``NEW``
-explicitly.
+explicitly within a project. Use the :variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0077
+<CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP\<NNNN\>>` variable to set the policy for
+a third-party project in a subdirectory without modifying it.
.. include:: DEPRECATED.txt