Hi Mike! On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > I am returning to Qt programming after a long absence. > > Removing these files creates far more problems than are purportedly avoided. > A significant fraction of the examples fail even to compile now. (Maybe the > examples should be removed also?) > > Qt, and new concepts in Qt, are traditionally introduced by these examples. > Broken examples make for a very unsatisfying experience. > > We know some APIs are unstable but we need to use them. And we would > like the examples to work as they always do upstream. > > I tried to rebuild the broken packages locally but the files are even > removed from the source package so I cannot simply undo a broken patch. As there is request from two people to enable this API, I will do so in the next upload. Maybe it will be a separate package like qt3d5-unstable-dev, in which case it will have to go through the NEW queue (so you will have to wait before it reaches the repository). Just one comment for now: you say that the files are removed from source package. However that is not true, we only remove some assets from examples because they have licensing problems: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qt3d/blob/experimental/debian/copyright#L4 For a local build, you should remove these lines in the first place: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qt3d/blob/experimental/debian/rules#L30 After that, you may also need to add new lines to debian/qt3d5-dev.install. -- Dmitry Shachnev
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