Am Do den 9. Mär 2023 um 19:00 schrieb Patrick Franz: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 06:34:16 +0100 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> wrote: > [...] > > But the versioned dependency is unneeded as I could test by forcing > > install old version. It does not only work, it does also work better > > in the "broken" state than with the correct dependencies. > > > > So it IS a bug of this package. > > No, it is not a bug in Qt.
I see that different. > The versioned dependency is picked up by the Debian build system and not > by code in Qt. If it has to pick 1.8.4, then it is because it either > needs it or it cannot determine which version would suffice. Merely > pointing to a single use case is not enough to lower it. Maybe there are > use cases where 1.8.4 is needed. I challenge that there is a need for versioned at all! Just remove the version number dependency and everything is great. > There are a dozen packages depending on libx11-xcb1 1.8.4 - do you want > those to lessen their dependencies as well ? Yes... But only 3 packages are in my use and they works pretty well with unversioned dependency. > Manually editing automatically picked-up dependencies is asking for > trouble. Just remove the version at all. That is supported by the build system. > The bug is in libx11. If you want the situation solved, please help > fixing the bug there. Well, I delivered all that is needed to fix the bug. And yes, the bug is there. But the unneeded versioned dependency is in that package and is against the debian policy... Gruß Klaus -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.ch> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C
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