Hi Sandro, On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 03:51:58PM +0100, Hefee wrote: > I think there are also some candidates, that use qt6-base-dev-tools, as they > are do not need all the other parts of qt6-base-dev to get installed, because > they simply do not want to compile code, but just need information where to > find a qt resources. > One example would be I write a QML app run by python. To get the list of QML > dependencies I use dh_qmldeps. and dh_qmldeps only needs to know the path > where to find the qml modules by execute qtpaths.
This ^^^^^^^ is exactly the case where qt6-base-dev-tools is insufficient as qtpaths is the thing that is architecture-dependent and whatever you depend on to get qtpaths must not be M-A:foreign. To make matters worse, any package that uses qtpaths6 cannot be M-A:foreign either as it inherits the property of being architecture-dependent. > Maybe there are more use cases for other binaries in Python code. Probably. > That's why I say, that dev-tools should be fine for packages to depend on. Your example tells otherwise. > IMO I recommend to do this: > create qtpaths6 (any:same) and qtpaths6-bin(any:foreign) like for qmake6. This much technically makes sense for cross building, but I am not entirely convinced about using many small packages, because the Qt stack has a web of dependencies, so in most practical situations I end up with a pile of stuff. Whilst saving space is nice, I don't see the use case for development tools. > create dev-tools-config(arch:same) move everything from qmake6 except > usr/bin/ This makes sense in principle as qtpaths6 will need to depend on dev-tools-config (<- this should probably carry "qt" somehwere in the name). > rename qt6-base-dev-tools to qt6-base-dev-bin + provides and add qtpaths6. Can you elaborate what you mean here precisely? This is lacking slightly too many details for me to fill in the gaps. When I suggested renaming qt6-base-dev-tools to qt6-base-dev-bin, the point of the exercise was to actively break all users of qt6-base-dev-tools such that each of them would require action transitioning its dependency to whatever was really meant there. Helmut
