Debhelper 14 and dh_qmldeps
Hefee
hefee at debian.org
Tue Jun 23 12:00:14 BST 2026
Hi,
meanwhile 0.22.0 is available within testing and Debhelper 14 is released too.
So we can start migrating to Debhelper 14 ;)
> Yes, apologies, I was not clear enough. It has nothing to do with qml
> itself. `qt6-dev` would be a metapackage to install **all** the `-dev`
> packages related to Qt. The problem with this is that, without a lintian
> rule, this can be used as a build-dependency for packages... which will
> bloat the builds.
>
> Not long before leaving maintainership I learnt that it would be possible
> to add a fatal-like lintian rule to avoid qt6-dev being used in
> Build-Dependencies. In fact, there is the possibility that some package
> already does so. This would enable having this much wanted metapackage
> (users tend to like having this option).
Thanks for this longer repose. Such a fatal-like lintan rule would also help
us on those qt6-*-dev-tools packages, that should only be treated as multiarch
implementation details and should not be used in a dependency.
Regards,
hefee
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