Hi Dmitry! On 1/2/19 6:31 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: >> I know the patch isn't perfect, but it helps us unblocking the reverse >> dependencies of qttools. Currently, I have manually build qttools with >> the patch and re-upload every the Qt team uploads a new qttools version >> which feels like a sisyphos task [2]. > > What do you think of splitting qdoc into a separate package? > > This way the packages that need it might explicitly build-depend on that > package and dep-wait instead of getting build failures on some architectures.
That would be awesome. Thanks a lot for that. > Also we will be able to use the Architecture: field and a proper install file > instead of this hack in debian/rules. > > If you want we can upload the patch as-is now and then do a follow-up upload > to the NEW queue introducing the new package. I'm fine waiting for the qttools upload taking longer if it has to go through NEW. If I know the issue is being worked on, I can continue applying the temporary fix in Debian Ports. > (Or maybe we can add Provides: qt5-qdoc [arch1 arch2…] which should be the > same with regards to Build-Depends: field of other packages. But I like > splitting more.) Feel free to use the option which suits you best. And thanks again for working on that. Much appreciated! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913