Lintian tag for gles packages

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On 20/01/23 10:27, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On 20/01/23 09:58, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > tl;dr: I'm asking for review of possible new lintian tags
> > 
> > Hi! As you might now Dmitry added OpenGL ES support for Qt packages:
> > 
> > <https://mitya57.me/weblog/2020/01/qt-opengl-es-packages-available.html>
> > 
> > This leads to a new situation: packages depending upon qtbase5-dev normally
> > should also conditionally depend upon qtbase5-gles-dev, as per
> > 
> > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949028>
> > 
> > This are normally development packages that use Qt.
> > 
> > There are of course some corner cases. If a package is intended to be used with
> > Desktop OpenGL then depending just on qtbase5-dev is enough. The same analogy
> > goes for apps using only OpenGL ES.
> > 
> > I think this is a nice case for a lintian tag. I've tried to create one but perl
> > is definitely not my friend. So I'm planning to file a wishlist bug requesting
> > for one.

I've had some feedback on IRC and I clearly wasn't clear enough.

The problem is allowing apps to use qtbase5-gles-dev as a build dependency.

Currently if myapp B-Ds on qtbase5-gles-dev and, let's say, libpoppler-qt5-dev
it won't be possible to fullfill the request because the latest only depends upon
qtbase5-dev.

Hope that clariefies the situation.

Cheers!