Bug#893387: qtwayland-opensource-src: Qt5 Wayland Client Dev Package missing
Hi Andreas!
On 18 March 2018 at 10:44, Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cordlandwehr@kde.org> wrote:
> Source: qtwayland-opensource-src
> Version: 5.9.2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the qtwayland5-dev-tools package provides the qtwaylandscanner binary, which
> generates server side and client side headers and implementations for Wayland
> extension protocols. Specifically, the qtwaylandscanner tool takes XML
> definition files as input and generates C++ header and sources. These
> sources depend on headers that are shipped with qtwayland-opensource-src.
> All headers for the Wayland server side (AKA compositor) are provided with the
> libqt5waylandcompositor5-dev package, yet the client side headers are not provided
> and makes it impossible to generate both Wayland client and server implementations
> with qtwaylandscanner.
>
> Right now, the client side headers are removed in debian/rules and I would like
> to request them added again as a *-dev package; possible with a Suggests to
> qtwayland5-dev-tools for this package, too.
If I remember correctly we removed the libraries that do not provide
stable API. I'll recheck the packaging to see what needs to get
removed, but if it depends on private API we have a big issue here.
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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