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Re: Latest qt4 backports break bpo qtcreator and wireshark



On lunes, 18 de julio de 2016 2:19:04 P. M. ART Alexander Wirt wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > On domingo, 17 de julio de 2016 11:13:24 A. M. ART Lisandro Damián Nicanor
> > Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > I acknowledge that there are a hadful of packages that use Qt5's private
> > > headers on jessie and that those need a rebuit, I was planning to do
> > > that
> > > once the full stack is there.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Now it seems backports are not ready for uploading bigger stacks like
> > > this,
> > > which if it's really the case I can understand it. If so, please do
> > > *not*
> > > heasiate and remove harfbuzz, qtchooser, qt4-x11, qt*-opensource-src and
> > > reject qtcreator ans qbs from NEW.
> > 
> > While I wait for, at very least, an aswer to the above from a BPO FTP
> > master I'll add another technical question, which I would like answered
> > also by a BPO ftp master.
> > 
> > From a technical point of view rebuilding a stable package against a
> > version in bpo is feasible, but I don't know if it's possible due to
> > policy/man power to handle them/another issue.
> > 
> > As an example, suposse we have
> > 
> >   foo_<jessie_version>
> > 
> > in jessie. If it somehow required a rebuilt against a package in backports
> > someone could easily prepare a backports-like upload with version
> > 
> >   foo_<jessie_version>+bpo8+1 (note the + instead of the ~)
> 
> what is the somehow? That case should never happen. And we don't support it
> either. Source of backports is only testing (except for security uploads).

Packages that build against Qt5's private headers or that (like calibre) embed 
private headers and make apt think they need to get rebuilt in order to be 
coinstalable.

If this is the case and it's not acceptable then Qt5 should not belong to bpo, 
as there are a handfull of packages that fall into this category. The list of 
packages to be removed was present in my previous mail.


-- 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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