Qt5->Qt6 transition chaos for packagers when depending applications are not yet ported.

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Oct 4 21:07:56 BST 2023


El dimecres, 4 d’octubre de 2023, a les 11:39:27 (CEST), Scarlett Moore va 
escriure:
> Hello everyone!
> Obviously we expect there to be bumps in the road while packaging
> unstable ( master ), however in most cases you can set
> QT_VERSION_MAJOR and dual build qt5 and qt6 version to satisfy both
> qt5 and qt6 applications. I have stumbled on libkgapi which master
> does not support this and will only build qt6. kio-gdrive is not yet
> ported and as such creating a bit of chaos with apt. We have come up
> with a workaround, but shouldn't libraries still support both when
> there are applications out there that still depend on the qt5 variant?
> Thanks,
> Scarlett

Is the new-qt6 version of libkgapi coninstallable with the old-qt5 one? If so 
that's a possible solution.

Cheers,
  Albert




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