Bug#328109: qt-x11-free: Please do not modularize the styles

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

jasny@vidsoft.de writes:

> Package: qt-x11-free
> Severity: normal
>
> with the current qt3 package it is not possible anymore to create own
> styles based on QWindowsStyle. Small test program:
>
> #include <qwindowsstyle.h>
>
> class MyStyle : public QWindowsStyle
> {
> 	Q_OBJECT
> };
>
> g++ -I/usr/include/qt3 -c windowsstyle.cpp
>
> It compiles at my sarge box without problems.
>
> It is still possible to create new styles based on QStyle, but
> subclassing QWindowsStyle is much easier.

That would be because of this change:

  * Build the Qt styles as plugins. This does not affect the Qt buildkey,
    so shouldn't affect other packages.

which is really not a good idea...

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