[Debian-med-packaging] Lintian leaves me with error when Build-Depending from qt5-default :-( (Was: C++ / Qt help for Ugene needed)

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Fri Dec 11 13:18:43 UTC 2015


* Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>, 2015-12-11, 13:29:
>Currenly I'm left with a riddle about the role of qt5-default which is 
>a metapackage and lintian throws an error when Build-Depending from a 
>metapackage.

If you have a question or doubts about Lintian output, please aways 
quote what Lintian said exactly.

Anyway, contrary to what Lintian might have said, qt5-default is not a 
metapackage. From the package description:

>This package sets Qt 5 to be the default Qt version to be used when 
>using development binaries like qmake. It provides a default 
>configuration for qtchooser, but does not prevent alternative Qt 
>installations from being used.
>
>This package should not be used for building Debian packages. Take a 
>look at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtstuff.html for more 
>information.

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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