Re: On the matter of Qt packaging
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:21, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > - split up libqt3-headers into libqt3-headers and libqt3-compat-headers
> > since about 30% of the Qt-headers are for compatibility to Qt 1.x and 2.x
> > versions and not part of the official Qt3 API anymore. If a packager
> > maintains a package that requires the compat files he should then notify
> > upstream to fix the includes he uses and until then use
> > libqt3-compat-headers in his build-dependencies
>
> I don't think it should be Debian's responsibility to track Trolltech's
> API compatibility, especially since many of the current headers support
> obsolete features anyway.
I think that it is our responsibility to do whatever it takes to make software
work well in Debian. I think that having separate packages for the old
compatability code that most people doing new development won't need is a
good idea. I hate it when I accidentally use the wrong API...
> Debian wouldn't gain much from the effort of splitting the Qt headers,
> at the expense of complicating the Qt packages even further.
How difficult is it?
> > - the IMHO more than necessary splitting off of the static libraries
> > libqt.a and libqt-mt.a into a separate package libqt3-static-dev. Each
> > has about 10 MB of size and currently cover 99,9% of the size of the
>
> FYI, this is being discussed on debian-policy as we speak.
For a smaller package a policy discussion is appropriate. For saving me 10
megs when I do an update there should not be any need of a discussion. 10
megs is an hour of download on a modem!!!
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