On Fri, 2024-06-14 at 10:33 +0200, Sune Stolborg Vuorela wrote: > On Friday, June 14, 2024 10:25:59 AM CEST John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I'm not denying that. However, a package named "qml6-module-qtquick-effects" > > doesn't sound like an interpreter to me. > > > > Thus, I don't really see how I am supposed to know as a maintainer what > > packages add Depends except for trial and error. Why not have one canonical > > "qt-interpretor" package or similar that applications can depend on? > > This is a module for a interpreted language. It is not much different than a > python package might need a hardcoded dependency on python-foo if it uses > that. or a perl package might need a hardcoded dependency on libperl-foo-bar- > baz if it uses the Foo::Bar::Baz perl module for important functionality. > > all qml*-module packages are qml (interpreted language) extensions. > > And yes. trial and error - or reading the sources - is for many interpreted > languages the only way of figuring it out.
Ugh, that's truly a step backwards and way to add more burden to maintainers. I guess we'll be seeing plenty of such bug reports in the future when extensions get moved around or new ones get added. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
