Hello, On šeštadienis 11 Birželis 2011 19:28:20 Joey Hess wrote: > Modestas Vainius wrote: > > debconf build-depends on libqtgui4-perl but it builds fine without this > > dependency. Apparently, libqtgui4-perl is only useful at runtime (and > > debconf binary package suggests it already). Could you remove this > > package from Build-Depends? > > libqtgui4-perl is necessary to build Ui_DebconfWizard.pm from the > WizardUi.ui file. That it fails to FTBFS, and generates an empty > Ui_DebconfWizard.pm is probably unintentional, a hack discards the > failure from puic4 not running. If debconf is built without > libqtgui4-perl it will not have a functional kde frontend.
Oh, I see. But read below. > > I'm reporting this as important because qt4-perl (source package for > > libqtgui4-perl) might have to go away from testing (or archive) > > temporarily or permanently. When this happens, this trivial bug will > > become RC so it's better to avoid that in advance... > > Wouldn't it also be a problem that debconf would again not have a kde > frontend? We have another frontend which itself is a client of the debconf passthrough frontend. It is implemented natively in C++ and would be free of qt4-perl bindings. I will try to implement a Frontend/Kde.pm wrapper for it. Would you accept it? Once I'm done, I will report another bug. It does not look like qt4-perl and qt/kde smoke bindings have a bright future in Debian at this point as nobody wants to package a standalone version. Maybe somebody interested will reintroduce them later. -- Modestas Vainius <[email protected]>
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