Bug#904688: qttools-opensource-src: FTBFS: please drop the libclang-dev B-D on some architectures
On 2 Jan 2019, at 17:31, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi Adrian and Lisandro!
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:35:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Would it be possible that the patch from David [1] gets included in the
>> next upload with the dependencies adjusted in debian/control for the
>> affected architectures?
>>
>> 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?
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> 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.
>
> Also we will be able to use the Architecture: field and a proper install file
> instead of this hack in debian/rules.
That's personally how I think it should be done. We can have the -dev package
Depend: qdoc [arches] during the transitional period until everything needing
qdoc explicitly (Build-)Depends on it.
James
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