[Pkg-crosswire-devel] qtwebkit packaging changes in Maverick?

[Jonathan Marsden]

I'm packaging BibleTime 2.8_rc1 for Debian and Ubuntu.

My packages currently build and seem to basically work on Debian stable
and unstable, and on Ubuntu Lucid.

They fail to build on Debian experimental or on Ubuntu Maverick or
Natty!  This is apparently because the packaging of qtwebkit changed or
is being changed.  In particular, the header file QWebSettings used to
be part of libqt4-dev, but in Maverick and Natty it is not there, it is
in libqtwebit-dev instead.  But libqtwebkit-dev does not exist in Lucid.

This is awkward, since I'd like a BT package that builds for both Lucid
and for Maverick and Natty...  I'm thinking about kludges such as

Build-Depends: libqtwebkit-dev | libqt4-dev

so that if libqtwebkit-dev exists for a given setup it will be installed
and used, but if not it will fall back to libqt4-dev which is needed
anyway and will always be found and installed/used.

But that's pretty ugly.  Is there some better way of doing "If building
for distro X then Build-Depends on package Y"?  Or do I just need to
keep two /debian source trees in parallel from now on, one for Lucid and
one for Maverick and Natty??

Jonathan