Bug#854440: qtchooser: Does not search for QT5 executables by default
On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:07:41 +0100 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With qttools5-dev-tools installed, when I'm trying to run the
> "assistant" command, I get:
>
> bigon@fornost:~$ qtchooser -run-tool=assistant
> qtchooser: could not exec
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/assistant': No such file or directory
>
> I explicitly need to specify the version and then it's working:
>
> bigon@fornost:~$ qtchooser -run-tool=assistant -qt=5
>
> Isn't that defeating completely the purpose of this tool?
I see in #764184 that qtchooser is apparently a qt4 application, so why
would qt5 package depends on it?
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I see QT5 applications also try to use the "assistant" from /usr/bin
that then points to the non existing version of QT4. Wouldn't it be
better to force the PATH in libqt5 to also look in /usr/lib/*/qt5/bin if
qtchooser cannot be used?
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