Re: request to backport calibre 4.16.0
On 5/18/20 4:14 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
Recent versions of Calibre require qtbase5-dev (>= 5.12), buster (Debian
10) has 5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u3, and a backport of Qt5 would break all
Qt5-using packages in buster. Unfortunately this means there will be no
further backports of Calibre, and the existing package is technically in
violation of backports policy.
I couldn't find anything in the upstream or debian changelogs that
indicate why this versioned debian dependency was added. Here's the
commit for the change
https://github.com/norbusan/calibre-debian/commit/1041f
which says
cleanup build and run deps
- unify the layout: first specific, followed by common deps
for both build and run
- add several items to build deps since we do unit testing now
- remove versions that are not available in Debian anymore
Probably there was a reason? But has anyone tried building with older?
In the upstream source, in ./bypy/sources.json I see
"name": "qt-base",
"version": "5.14.1",
"hashes": {
"unix":
"sha256:d9d423a6e7bcf1055c0372fc029f14a6fe67dd62c67b83095cde68b60b762cf7"
}
but it comes from upstream that way, not debian.
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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