[Pkg-kde-talk] Re: [Pkg-kde-commits] rev 1349 - trunk/packages/qt-x11-free/debian

[Christopher Martin]

Quoting Adeodato Simó <asp16 at alu.ua.es>:
> > New Revision: 1349
>   
>   I have a couple comments about this one.
> 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/packages/qt-x11-free/debian/control
> > Log:
> > Add new libxi-dev to the build-depends, dev package depends.
> 
>   Can we get a changelog entry for this? But more importantly:
>
> > Since this is needed for other KDE packages,
> 
>   Is this confirmed? If so, shouldn't these packages be depending
>   themselves on libxi-dev, instead of relying on qt3-dev doing so?

kdelibs, kdewebdev, IIRC, but I didn't do a thorough check. As for the
general issue, thus far the packages have simply been using qt and kdelibs
dev packages to pull in basic build deps. It's a convenient but lazy
practice, of course, and if you feel this ought to change then we can work
on cleaning the situation up.
 
> > having this pulled in is handy.
> > In Qt, required for (at the very least) tablet support.
> 
>   I'd prefer to add the build-dependency only when needed, i.e. in -5
>   when tablet support is added.

Argh! Not only did I completely forget about the 3.4.2 release date issue,
but I somehow thought that the package in trunk had enabled tablet support
(as I had in my more experimental packaging).

Perhaps kdelibs could get the dependency on libxi-dev for the time being
instead (and add it to the kdelibs4-dev's deps as well, perhaps. As for
kdewebdev, or other packages that need it... ?).

Cheers,
Chris