Control: reassign -1 libqt5x11extras5 5.5.1-3 On 2015-12-27 18:49:07, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.2.1-5+b1 > Severity: normal > > Hi! Sebastian Ramacher told me that vlc is a X11-only app. In other words, > even if it's built against Qt5 it depends upon X11 itself (Qt5 apps can run > without X11). > > If that's the case then it should depend upon libqt5xcbqpa5, which is the > pluging used by Qt5 to use X11. > > This is the case of a non-automatic dependency (ie, not catched by our > Debian tools) like QML stuff. vlc is not the place to fix broken Qt dependencies. If linking against libqt5x11extras5 requires libqt5xcbqppa5 to work, libqt5x11extras5 needs to depend on that package or emit proper dependencies via its symbols / shlibs file. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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