Bug#641812: Packaging qtsingleapplication?
Hi Kunal! Sorry for the very late reply.
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 05:42, Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Qt maintainers,
>
> I'm currently packaging kiwix (#763321) and came across
> qtsingleapplication. It has had an open RFP (#641812) since 2011.
>
> Currently upstream kiwix bundles a copy of qtsingleapplication in its
> Git repo/tarballs, as there is no packaged version.
>
> However, the Fedora kiwix packager has asked
> (<https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues/470>) for
> qtsingleapplication to be unbundled as they have it packaged.
>
> I noticed via codesearch that there are other packages that also bundle
> qtsingleapplication:
> <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=qtsingleapplication&literal=1>.
>
> Is this something current Qt maintainers would be interested in
> providing a package for? Or should I recommend to upstream to continue
> bundling it?
Wow, I didn't know that it worked with Qt5, last time I checked it was
a Qt 4 only thing.
For what I understand this is a non-maintained piece of technology,
for example: where is upstream for it?
Anyways, you are free to package it yourself.
Cheers, Lisandro.
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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