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

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Oct 4 21:08:36 BST 2023


El dimecres, 4 d’octubre de 2023, a les 16:01:30 (CEST), Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 2:16 AM Scarlett Moore <
> 
> scarlett.gately.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Just as a side note here - where this happens, the CI system should begin
> to alert people as it will no longer be able to locate the dependency in
> question.

Laurent cheated a bit and did this 
https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-gdrive/-/commit/d93eddeb14810f925c677ba97e667fd49afab81c

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> From my perspective though, leaves (applications) should move before any
> branches (libraries) move.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Scarlett
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben






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