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Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework



On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:36:00PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> > [Brian Nelson]
> > > * Package name    : qt-x11-opensource
> > >   Version         : 4.0 beta 2
> > >   Upstream Author : Trolltech AS

> > Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in the name?  

> It's the upstream name.  For whatever reason, Trolltech has chosen
> different names for each major release:

> Qt1: qt
> Qt2: qt-x11
> Qt3: qt-x11-free
> Qt4: qt-x11-opensource

> Qt5 will probably be qt-x11-foss or qt-x11-freeasinspeech or something
> equally annoying.

> > That's a pretty redundant designation for something in Debian main,
> > don't you think?  I'd probably go with "qt4" or "libqt4" or "qt4-x11"
> > for the source package name.

> I was thinking about naming it qt4-x11, but I'm not sure it's worth
> deviating from upstream.

Sure it is: qt4-x11 tells people what it is, and qt-x11-opensource is loopy.
There's no obligation to keep the source package name the same as the
upstream tarball name.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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