Bug#767107: Lintian reports error on dependency to qt5-default but removing it causes build failures
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Jussi,
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> * Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>, 2014-10-28, 16:22:
>>
>> Lintian reports an error for depending on metapackages. One of them is
>> qt5-default. Depending on it causes errors such as this one:
>>
>> https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/jpakkane@gmail.com.html#meson
>>
>> However if you remove qt5-default from the list of dependencies and just
>> add those packages that it depends on, trying to build packages in pbuilder
>> fails with the following error message (from memory, might not be exact):
>>
>> moc: can not find installation of Qt in ''
>>
>> This happens whether or not you have qtchooser in your package
>> dependencies.
>
>
> IANA Qt expert, but my understanding is that meson should pass the "-qt5"
> option to "moc" and friends; then the error will go away.
>
>> Given this it seems like qt5-default should be removed from the list of
>> metapackages Lintian warns about or the packaging of Qt5 needs to be changed
>> so that their build tools work in pbuilder when qt5-default is not
>> installed.
>
>
> qt*-default was added after to the list of metapackages after a request from
> a prominent Qt/KDE team member, who probably knew what he was doing. :-)
> https://bugs.debian.org/756158
I think you forget a build dep. Lisandro
> But admittedly, currently the tag description is outdated and not really
> helpful. :-(
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
>
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