Bug#1032512: Unneeded versioned dependency to libx11-xcb1
Hi,
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 06:34:16 +0100 Klaus Ethgen <klaus@ethgen.de> wrote:
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> But the versioned dependency is unneeded as I could test by forcing
> install old version. It does not only work, it does also work better
> in the "broken" state than with the correct dependencies.
>
> So it IS a bug of this package.
No, it is not a bug in Qt.
The versioned dependency is picked up by the Debian build system and not
by code in Qt. If it has to pick 1.8.4, then it is because it either
needs it or it cannot determine which version would suffice. Merely
pointing to a single use case is not enough to lower it. Maybe there are
use cases where 1.8.4 is needed.
There are a dozen packages depending on libx11-xcb1 1.8.4 - do you want
those to lessen their dependencies as well ? Manually editing
automatically picked-up dependencies is asking for trouble.
The bug is in libx11. If you want the situation solved, please help
fixing the bug there.
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Patrick Franz
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