Bug#765491: vtk6: Should not conditionally use Qt4 or Qt5

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 18:04:09 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 15 October 2014 12:03:21 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
wrote:
[snip] 
> Please also note that by changing to Qt5 you also started an unnanounced
> transition, as the packages that build depend upon vtk6 needs to get
> rebuilt.
> 
> As you didn't ask for the transition and you are late for doing it, you
> might get a removal of vtk6 from testing along with all the packages that
> build depend upon it. Please also note that I'm just warning you about the
> posibility, as I am not part of the release team and so it's not my
> decistion.

I am wrong in this, there is #749395

But I agree with [0] that you are pushing too hard, as you also are asking 
people to change the Qt version, which might not be straightforward nor 
possible if you keep two versions depending on the arch.

[0] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749395#19>

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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