severity 386291 wishlist thanks On Friday 28 March 2008 05:06:58 Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > 1. Since mimms use arguments(), which requires qt >= 4.1. > 2. So, should add "libqt4-dev >= 4.1" in Build-Depends. > 3. For debian to be a universal distribution, this build-depends > requirement would be useful.
libqt4-dev 4.1 is short-lived ancient history, and doesn't exist on any Debian distribution: sarge (oldstable) doesn't have any libqt4-dev, and etch (stable), lenny (testing), and sid (unstable) all have 4.2 or above. Even at the time this bug was originally, there was no libqt4-dev < 4.2 out there for any Debian distribution. Debian is a universal *distribution*, but that doesn't mean that packages can or should always magically work on any derived or backported distribution. Someone could argue that *every* dependency needs to be versioned, since there are ancient versions of just about every library that aren't compatible with that is currently being used. The bottom line is, this is not a bug in the Debian package, but is either causing you some grief in some derivitive distribution, or you are mixing and matching packages from different distributions. In the first case, I suggest that you file a bug with the actual distribution you are using (e.g. Ubunutu). In the second case, mixing packages from different distributions is always at-your-own-risk. Anyway, sorry to rant a bit, but I already closed this bug with this same justification more than a year ago. You seemed happy with it then, but now you've dredged it back up from the archives and reopened it. If I'm misunderstanding your use-case here, please explain it to me in more detail. I am truly interested in fixing bugs, but I'm not interested in makework to help do explicitly unsupported things. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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