Bug#363150: closed by Sune Vuorela <sune@vuorela.dk> (qmake, uic, moc and others as alternatives)

[Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:12:41PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2007 12:09 schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
> > We currently don't consider this a bug, but a feature to actually have both
> > qt versions installable.
> >
> > if you want to be completely sure which one you use, you can either set
> > PATH and/or QTDIR appropriately.
> 
> That isn't the point.  The problem is that just calling "qmake" is useless 
> because either it's a Qt 3 package, which won't work if qmake is the Qt 4 
> version, or vice versa.  It's perfectly OK to have both qmake-qt3 and 
> qmake-qt4 available, but the alternative should be removed because it cannot 
> be useful.

You are right that 'qmake', as an alternative either pointing to
version 3 or version 4, is useless when called from a script (eg. from
debian/rules). But as a shortcut when used manually, it's perfectly fine
IMHO.

What about documenting that scripts should use qmake-qt3 or qmake-qt4,
and make it a bug if a build script calls qmake?

Jan