Bug#1001759: RFS: qt6/6.2.2+ds-1 -- Qt for Android (x86_64)

[Fab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr>]

Hello,

Le mercredi 15 décembre 2021, 16:22:41 CET Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit :
> Having a source package named "qt6" build Android-specific packages sounds
> wrong to me. 

I understand. I gave it that name to be at least distinct from the other qt6 
packages. This can be changed to anything more suitable like qt6-android or 
whatever.

> Is this intended to contain the normal Qt source code and so
> be a duplicate of normal Qt packages?

It can't be duplicate to DFSG Qt source code as shipped by Debian because 
these sources have been stripped down and some files/libraries that are needed 
for the qt for android "variant" are missing. That's the case for 'sqlite' as 
well as for 'freetype' and 'libpng' if I remember well. These libraries used 
by Qt for Android are not shipped in Android NDK, so we have to build with 
their source shipped in the qt sources. Hence the need of a distinct source 
file.

You can follow a beginning of discussion on qt for android in [1]. Having a 
distinct source archive seemed to be the favored option.

[1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-kde-talk/2021-September/
thread.html

> This question would be asked in the ITP bug for this package but it
> doesn't seem to have one...

Rgds
Fab