I did a **very** simple analysis of apps packaged in Debian using qtbase's private headers. My main concern was to see if we (Debian) can avoid having to rebuild them every time we push a new version of Qt to our archive.
What I've found seemed interesting so I decided to share it here. The following three have something in common: they are all apps coded for Chinese people. I've been told that they need QPA's private stuff in order to have proper input systems, but I haven't checked. * fcitx-qt5 1.0.5 * gcin 2.8.4 * hime 0.9.10 If people go to the extent of using private headers for this maybe it's a very good reason to (somehow) make that part of the API public. It might make a difference for chinese coders. --8<-- The following three seems to be using at least qpa/qplatformtheme.h * KDE's frameworkintegration 5.16.0 * libqtxdg 1.3.0 * lxqt-qtplugin 0.10.0 Maybe for being able to create it's own theme? --8<-- And the rest for various reasons: * KDE's kdeclarative 5.16.0: code says to use QQuickImageProvider * KDE's kwin 5.4.3: qpa/qwindowsysteminterface.h * gammaray 2.4.0 I guess it needs to get into internal stuff. * musescore 2.0.2 An interesting false positive. It embeds Qt's code without a namespace so the resulting symbols files get catched by our tools and confuse them. * qtcurve 1.8.18: private/qwidget_p.h (no further digging) * calibre 2.48.0: quite a lot of stuff, just saw it and left it there. That's all. I really hope someone finds it interesting. <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/fcitx-qt5> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/frameworkintegration> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gcin> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/hime> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/kdeclarative> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/kwin> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/libqtxdg> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gammaray> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/lxqt-qtplugin> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/musescore> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/qtcurve> <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/calibre> -- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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