Please help with qelectrotech 0.8.0 cmake for Debian

[laurent Trinques]

Le jeudi 11 mars 2021, 00:24:00 CET Martin a écrit :
> Dear Laurant, dear Denis, dear science team,
> 
> I took a look into QElectroTech 0.8.0, released 2021-02-21, to
> update the package in Debian (not targeted for Debian 11
> bullseye, of course). See (1) and (2)
> 
> Version 0.8.0 uses a cmake feature, that has not been used in
> 0.7.0, FetchContent_Declare, which seems to try downloads of
> library code from various git repositories during build.
> 
> Of course, this is a strict no-go in Debian and most other
> distributions. Also, it is not necessary, because all the needed
> packages are present in Debian, as far as I can tell. (3)
> 
> I have to confess, that I don't know anything about cmake, and
> my naive attempts of just using "DOWNLOAD_COMMAND true" and
> removing the GIT_ directives failed.
> 
> Therefore I ask for your help in correctly building the package
> for Debian (and other distributions) by using the existing
> Debian packages instead of using FetchContent_Declare.
> 
> I'm willing to apply any patches, to test results, and to
> upload, but I don't have the capacity to learn cmake and the
> subtleties of the Qt ecosystem. Therefore I need some help!
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any support in that matter!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> (1) https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qelectrotech
> (2) https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/qelectrotech
> (3) catch2, extra-cmake-modules, googletest, libpugixml-dev,
>     libsingleapplication-dev, and ls5-dev

Hi Martin,

cmake was added in anticipation of Qt6 version.
ignore this file CMakeLists.txt and use qmake.

Cheers,

Laurent