Hi all, again. On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:56:36PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > As part of an investigation to establish the feasibility of moving 32-bit > archs to 64-bit time_t, I am running an analysis of all header files in the > archive to determine which libraries' ABIs are affected. This requires the > headers in question to be compilable. > > qtbase5-private-dev ships header files which have includes that are not > satisfied by its dependencies. For my purposes, I've worked around these > unusable headers by adding quirks to my scripts, but it seems worth > reporting as a bug that headers are being shipped that aren't usable. > > - qt5/QtCore/5.15.8/QtCore/private/qcborcommon_p.h, which #includes cbor.h, > found in libcbor-dev; but does not provide the CborValue type Actually, Qt uses tinycbor [1], not libcbor. tinycbor is not packaged in Debian, and Qt doesn't have an option to build with system tinycbor anyway, so we are using the bundled version. [1]: https://github.com/intel/tinycbor > - qt5/QtCore/5.15.8/QtCore/private/qcfsocketnotifier_p.h, which #includes > CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h, not found in any package in the archive. > - qt5/QtGui/5.15.8/QtGui/private/qcoregraphics_p.h: same > - qt5/QtCore/5.15.8/QtCore/private/qcore_mac_p.h, same > - qt5/QtFontDatabaseSupport/5.15.8/QtFontDatabaseSupport/private/qcoretextfontdatabase_p.h, > depends on the preceding > - qt5/QtFontDatabaseSupport/5.15.8/QtFontDatabaseSupport/private/qfontengine_coretext_p.h: > same > - qt5/QtTest/5.15.8/QtTest/private/qappletestlogger_p.h: same These headers are macOS-specific, but the Qt build system installs all headers unconditionally. > - qt5/QtCore/5.15.8/QtCore/private/qcollator_p.h, which #includes > unicode/ucol.h, found in libicu-dev > - qt5/QtCore/5.15.8/QtCore/private/qdoublescanprint_p.h, which #includes > double-conversion/double-conversion.h, found in libdouble-conversion-dev > [...] I have added these two and the other packages you mentioned to Suggests. Thank you for providing such a list. As earlier discussed, I don't want to depend on 16 packages that most of qtbase5-private-dev users won't actually need. -- Dmitry Shachnev
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