On 13 February 2016 at 16:03, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 February 2016 04:04:29 CET Rares Marian wrote: > > Incidentally, there's many packages with mixed dependencies on specific > > versions of libqt5core5a throughout kde5. Some pkgs want 5.6.0 others > > want 5.5.1. And they depend on each other. > > Yes, this seems to be due to a hiccup in the buildds experimental > dependency > solver, in the past the dependency solver tried to use the version in > unstable > unless the required versions were only available in experimental, the new > solver used qt 5.6 even though the qt 5.5 version from unstable was enough > to > fullfil the requiremens (this might sound simple, but it's a hard problem, > and > it's something that has always brought headaches to packagers working with > experimental). > > Is it possible to force buildd to use a specific QT version by adding the virtual qtbase-abi-5-5-1 (or qtbase-abi-5-6-0) packet as a build dependency to those packages that depends on QT?
