Bug#893387: qtwayland-opensource-src: Qt5 Wayland Client Dev Package missing
On 18 March 2018 at 15:31, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Please tell me which are the exact files missing and/or the debian
rules entries that remove them.
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