On Jue 07 Jun 2012 23:26:55 Daniel Schepler escribió: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > If qmake in Debian doesn't depend on pkg-config, then that's to be > > expected. qmake is a build system that uses pkg-config. Most Qt > > applications don't make use of that functionality though. > > > > I'm not the Debian maintainer. I'm qtads upstream, chipping-in to point > > out that qmake should most probably depend on pkg-config :-) > > If qmake can function without pkg-config, that makes the dependency at > most a Recommends. And if most Qt applications don't use the > pkg-config functionality, then a Suggests seems most appropriate. (Cc > to qt4-qmake package maintainers to get input on this point.) In > either case, the original bug report would be correct that qtads > should be Build-Depending on pkg-config.
Most Qt applications do not need to use pkg-config. If an app needs an external library which ships a .pc file (libusb, for example), then the programmer needs to call pkg-config from within the .pro. So, it's the app that requires pkg-config and not qmake. For what I understand of the bug report, this is the case. Although part of Debian's Qt-KDE team, I don't usually hack in Qt itself (at least in it's packaging), but I think the team will agree that pkg-config should not be even a Suggest. If they don't... well, someone may change that ;-) Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. Linus Benedict Torvalds. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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