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Bug#770430: openbox: Fails to launch qtconfig



tag 770430 + patch
thanks

On Friday 21 November 2014 18:08:37 Bill Allombert wrote:
[snip] 
> Hello Dan and Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers, the menu file for qt4-qtconfig
> reads:
> 
> ?package(qt4-qtconfig):\
>         needs="x11"\
>         section="Applications/System/Administration"\
>         title="QtConfig"\
>         longtitle="Qt Configuration Utility"\
>         hints="Qt4 config tool"\
>         command="/usr/lib/*/qt4/bin/qtconfig"
> 
> However the use of a wildcard in the command field is problematic:
> If both /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qtconfig and
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qtconfig are installed, then
> this will expand to something nonsensical.
> 
> Also use of wildcards in command is not well supported by all the window
> manager.
> 
> Why not simply call /usr/bin/qtconfig-qt4 (which is a symlink to
> ../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qtconfig ?

I guess because /usr/bin/qtconfig-qt4 is something we don't want to promote 
too much because it's not an upstream thing.

Sadly this bug is almost a year old and has been discovered too late for 
Jessie :( Of course if an RC bug appears I will consider adding this simple 
one liner to the debdiff, but it alone doesn't justifies a Qt4 upload.

As we expect to remove Qt4 from Stretch [0] I highly doubt this will get 
solved.

[0] <http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/early-announce-qt4-removal-in-jessie1.html>

-- 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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