Bug#952718: qtcreator: Clang code model fail to find stddef.h if libclang-common-8-dev package is not installed

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Lisandro,

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 20:40, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lisandro,
>>
>> Out of curiosity, could this be solved for a Debian (and derivatives)
>> context by changing the Recommends on clang and clang-tidy to their
>> versioned package names (eg: clang-8 and clang-tidy-8)?
>
> No, this is not a versioning problem.
>

I agree, ideally it should be solved upstream, but a side-effect of
installing Recommends s/clang/clang-8/ is that it pulls in a dependency
on libclang-common-8-dev, and

Alexis Murzeau <amubtdx at gmail.com> writes:

> Install `qtcreator` but not the `libclang-common-8-dev` package
> Note: Installing `clang` package will install `clang-9` and not `clang-8`.
>
[snip]
>
> When installing the `libclang-common-8-dev` package, the clang code
> model error goes away and no error is reported anymore.
>
[snip]
>
> I expect the clang code model to work out of the box with all depends
> and recommends dependencies of `qtcreator`.
> As of now, `libclang-common-8-dev` seems required by the clang code
> model to work correctly, but that package is not a direct or indirect
> dependency of `qtcreator`.
>
> The simplest solution (if it is the right one) is to add
> `libclang-common-8-dev` as depends or recommends dependency to qtcreator.
> Or maybe it should be a dependency of `libclang1-8` instead (which
> qtcreator depends on).
>

My proposal would solve the Debian (and derivatives) case and is easy to
update/maintain with a sed regex.  Is our team categorically opposed to
working around upstream issues using Debian packaging facilities?

Thanks,
Nicholas
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