On 2 Jan 2019, at 17:31, Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Adrian and Lisandro! > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:35:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Would it be possible that the patch from David [1] gets included in the >> next upload with the dependencies adjusted in debian/control for the >> affected architectures? >> >> I know the patch isn't perfect, but it helps us unblocking the reverse >> dependencies of qttools. Currently, I have manually build qttools with >> the patch and re-upload every the Qt team uploads a new qttools version >> which feels like a sisyphos task [2]. > > What do you think of splitting qdoc into a separate package? > > This way the packages that need it might explicitly build-depend on that > package and dep-wait instead of getting build failures on some architectures. > > Also we will be able to use the Architecture: field and a proper install file > instead of this hack in debian/rules.
That's personally how I think it should be done. We can have the -dev package Depend: qdoc [arches] during the transitional period until everything needing qdoc explicitly (Build-)Depends on it. James
