Bug#469783: libqt4-dev: Please add qtdemo back and provide the examples

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the follow-up!

On 10 March 2008 at 12:21, Brian Nelson wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
| 
| > PS It would be nice if you could change debian/rules to set
| >
| > 	-demosdir "/usr/share/qt4/demos" \
| > 	-examplesdir "/usr/share/qt4/examples" \
| >
| > as the current qmake binary has the rather awkward paths 
| >        /usr/demos
| >        /usr/examples
| > preset given thet prefix=/usr.
| 
| That's a fine change to make, but it also illustrates the problem of
| including a usable qtdemo.  All of the demo sources and binaries would
| end up in /usr/share/qt4/demos, which is fine for the sources but bad
| for the binaries.  The binaries would need to go in /usr/lib/qt4/demos
| or something, and qtdemo would need to be hacked to find those
| binaries...  and it becomes annoyingly difficult to include useful demos
| for qtdemo...

Fair enough. Given that this mixes binaries and code/docs, how about 

 	-demosdir "/usr/lib/qt4/demos" \
 	-examplesdir "/usr/lib/qt4/examples" \

instead?  
 
It would be really nice to get this added back in.  I toyed with just putting
another package on of libqt4-dev / qt4-docs, but that failed due to this
compile-time configuration issue that seeps through to qmake.

Regards, Dirk

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