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Re: what is libqt3-mt?



Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:46:41PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> 
>> In that case, why not just remove libqt3-dev and have libqt3-mt-dev
>> provide it?  I doubt there's a single Qt application that would break
>> because it was compiled with the threaded version instead of
>> non-threaded.
>> 
> Applications which have been linked against libqt would not stop to work,
> but think of applications that have the "-lqt" ld option still hardcoded -
> they would fail to compile. 

That's an upstream problem though, and it's easy enough to fix in a
Debian package.

> As said, dropping unthreaded Qt3 can be an option - after sarge
> released.

True.  But having both libqt3-dev and libqt3-mt-dev is confusing and a
little messy.  Plus, programs that use the Qt plugins are annoyingly
chatty because they apparently find 2 versions of the plugins.

I'm not sure how accurate of an estimate this is, but:

$ grep-available -F Depends -s Package libqt3\ 
Package: libqt3-psql
Package: libmico-qt2.3
Package: mq3
Package: doxygen-gui
Package: qcad
Package: libqt3-odbc
Package: kascade
Package: kmatplot
Package: xxdiff
Package: libsoqt20
Package: djview
Package: hpoj-xojpanel
Package: tulip
Package: libqt3-mysql
Package: view3ds

That's not many packages that are linking against libqt3.  It shouldn't
be hard to fix them and do away with the single-threaded version.

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