If this is the intended behavior, I suggest the intentions should change.
At a minimum, some clues in a README.Debian would be helpful.
Ross
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 8:12 AM Debian Bug Tracking System <
ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the qtcreator package:
>
> #991798: qtcreator: No suitable kits found
>
> It has been closed by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <
> perezme...@gmail.com>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Lisandro Damián
> Nicanor Pérez Meyer by
> replying to this email.
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> From: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer"
> To: 991798-d...@bugs.debian.org
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> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 12:09:19 -0300
> Subject: Re: Bug#991798: Acknowledgement (qtcreator: No suitable kits
> found) [worked around]
> Hi Ross!
>
> There is a normal misunderstanding with respect to Qt Creator:
> installing it does not warrant you have the necessary Qt development
> files. This is because Qt Creator does not necessarily have to be used
> to code Qt stuff, in fact I use it for coding microcontrollers. So no,
> it will not "work out the box" in the way you expected.
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:42:07 -0700 Ross Boylan
> wrote:
> > I seem to have got things working on bullseye. I'm not sure how many of
> > the following steps are essential, except the last one!
> > Also, though this may solve my immediate problem, the issue that
> qtcreator
> > doesn't work "out of the box" remains. If something about the
> > interrelations between packages makes it impossible to configure
> > automatically, there should at least be guidance about what to do.
> >
> > 1. Install qtbase5-dev.
>
> This is the necessary first step for building Qt applications, no
> matter if you use Qt Creator or not.
>
> > 2. In QtCreator Tools | Options | Kits select the Qt tab. Apparently the
> > link facility only works for stuff installed
> > in a certain way, not including distribution packages (or so says the
> > internet) . Use add to point to the qmake which is now
> > available because of 1.
> > 3. Also needed to set Qt version in the Desktop kit, which took a couple
> of
> > tries (maybe need to restart to have it register).
>
> In fact these two steps can be avoided by simply installing Qt and
> then opening Qt Creator.
>
> > 4. Install qtquickcontrols2-5-dev when QtCreator still says"Unknown
> > modules in Qt: Quick". This is the only qtquick.*dev package, though
> > it hardly seems on point. Didn't help.
> > 5. Install qtdeclarative5-dev. Project now builds.
> >
> That's an issue that comes from upstream. The -dev packages are mostly
> named after the Qt submodules it was built from. So the core of the
> QML stuff is installed by qtdeclarative5-dev
>
> Maybe the qtquickcontrols2-5-dev package needs a dependency on
> qtdeclarative5-dev. But all it does is adding controls to QML.
>
> > My guess is that all but #4 are necessary. #5 is specific to Qt Quick;
> the
> > others are not.
>
> Depends a lot on what you are doing. If you need to use the serial
> port you would need to install libqt5serialport5-dev.
>
> Tip: using aptitude you can look for all the -dev packages by issuing:
>
> aptitude search qt | grep 5 | grep -dev
>
> There is surely a better/apt-only way of doing this, but that's the
> thing I normally use :-)
>
> By the way: we removed qt5-default package from bullseye. That package
> should have never existed.
>
> So what you found are not bugs but indeed the intended way to use
> these packages. I'm so closing this bug.
>
> Cheers, Lisandro.
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Ross Boylan
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:49:59 -0700
> Subject: qtcreator: No suitable kits found
> Package: qtcreator
> Version: 4.14.1-1
> Severity: important
> Justification: Unable to use package
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>* What led up to the situation?
>
>Install qtcreator and launch it.
>File | New File or Project
>Application (Qt Quick) | Qt Quick Application - Scroll
>Hit choose
>Enter location. Next.
>Accept defaults until get to Kit
