Bug#773686: lintian falsely considers qt5-default a metapackage
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: normal
When trying to build a package using qt5, lintian complained
E: build-depends-on-metapackage qt5-default
The problem is that qt5-default is NOT a metapackage and
packages that do not depend on this package will fail to
build in systems such as pbuilder.
The error you get without it is:
qmake: could not find a Qt installation of ''
Leaving aside the awesomeness of that error message, it basically
means qmake isn't sure what version of qt it should be. The
package qt5-default removes qmake's confusion.
It tested this by trying to build my package in a pbuilder, it
failed. I then logged into the pbuilder and installed qt5-default.
qmake was then able to work.
I'll put a lintian override in the meantime.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.90.20141209-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.20-2
ii gettext 0.19.3-2
ii hardening-includes 2.7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.22
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-4
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.1-3
ii t1utils 1.38-3+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1
ii perl 5.20.1-3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.1-3
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.22
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
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