Re: Latest qt4 backports break bpo qtcreator and wireshark

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi All,

2016-07-11 14:54 GMT+02:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez <perezmeyer@gmail.com>:
> On lunes, 11 de julio de 2016 12:54:03 A. M. ART Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> Hi Julien,
> [snip]
>> I'm not really convinced that the first thing to fix would be wireshark...
>
> It is not. Once the rest of the Qt 5 stack is present (and if the user does
> not has packages that B-D on private headers) then no issue should be present.
>
>> Sorry for asking this but why do we have Qt 4 4.8.7 in jessie-backports?
>
> Qt 4.8.7 brings bugfixes, but nothing totally important so as to be running to
> get it. I backported it because it *does* brings bugfixes but also integrates
> better with the qt5/qtchooser stack in testing.

I would prefer avoiding back-porting libraries with such a big number
of transitive
reverse dependencies. Important bug-fixes can be handled through
proposed-updates.

Thanks,
Balint