Bug#827896: libqt5gui5 uninstallable in multiarch due to dependency on mesa-utils
2016-06-22 15:06 GMT+02:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer@gmail.com>:
>> So it seems that mesa-utils is not so essential after all. Moreover, it's
>> not clear to me why a library package should depend on an external utility.
>
> Is it used in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl
Mmm... What I meant is that I think a library should be at most a
dependency for other utilities and should not be doing anything in a
proactive way, as a script implies. But I know a little about Debian
packaging and nothing about QT.
>> Finally 'dpkg -L libqt5gui5:i386' gives me no reference at all to
>> Xsession.d.
>
> Perhaps because it's the old version?
Yeah, of course... :D
> Anyways this needs a solution. It could actually depend on any arch version of
> mesa-utils. We will fix it somehow.
That should work fine. Looking forward, then! Thank you and have a nice day!
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Alessio Gaeta
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