Re: Bug#1034830: qtbase5-private-dev ships header that requires cbor.h without dependency
Hi,
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 17:38, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:21:45PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge Qt installs lots of really not-required headers in
> > it's private stuff. If you ask them it's for the sake of simplicity, as you are
> > not supposed to use private headers...
> >
> > The reason we export those private headers is because we build Qt by
> > submodules instead of a big huuuge build including webengine et all, and Qt
> > submodules do have internal private dependencies.
> >
> > So yes, it is a valid bug, but I am afraid that it will be too hard to get
> > that right. Non the less I really appreciate you filing this bug report, it is
> > a good thing to have it around.
> >
> > @Dmitry: I would mark this as wontfix, what do you think?
>
> Well, if adding just one small dependency will make Steve's script happy,
> then I don't mind doing it. But if we are talking about a dozen of extra
> dependencies, I would rather not do it. Or maybe they should be Recommends or
> Suggests.
Oh, I actually had my mind mostly on the dependencies that are
unsolvable on Debian. But yes, I agree with those.
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
https://perezmeyer.com.ar/
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