Qt 6

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On Sat, 25 Sept 2021 at 02:45, Fab Stz <fabstz-it at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Le vendredi 24 septembre 2021, 23:07:39 CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
> Meyer a écrit :
> > > When compiling Qt for Android, sqlite has to be there,
> > > it cannot take the system's sqlite since it is sort of compilation of Qt
> > > for an Android system which doesn't have sqlite built-in. There is the
> > > same problem for other 3rd party libraries shipped in Qt.
> >
> > Then don't use Debian's tarballs but get them from upstream directly.
>
> Is there any hope to see this Qt for Android in Debian's official repo?

Only if someone packages it.

> It would be useful for f-droid at least I guess. If as you suggest to use the
> upstream tarball, I understand this cannot be achieved then.

It is possible, as long as the packager follows all Debian requirements.

> It think it would have been better to have only one source package used by all
> "variants" of Qt. Which would avoid duplicate source code, especially for such
> a huge package. Maybe there is another way to do. How would it be acceptable
> for a Debian package ? What does the qt/kde community actually think of having
> Qt for Android in Debian?

Currently the Debian infrastructure does not allows "sharing" the
source code, at least to the best of my knowledge.