Hi,

On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 17:06, Hefee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> > Of course  I am not following this but *thanks*, this has been something
> I
> > never got to do myself :-)
>
> thax :)
>
> > I just wished I could have the time to add `qt6-dev` and the necessary
> > lintian rules to avoid it being a package dependency...
>
> What do you mean by that?  I'm not aware that dh_qmldeps add qt6-dev as
> dependency for the binary package. Or do you mean the dependency for the
> build
> to need the qmlimportscanner, that is part of qt6-dev package?
> Can you explain your wish a little bit more?


Yes, apologies, I was not clear enough. It has nothing to do with qml
itself. `qt6-dev` would be a metapackage to install **all** the `-dev`
packages related to Qt. The problem with this is that, without a lintian
rule, this can be used as a build-dependency for packages... which will
bloat the builds.

Not long before leaving maintainership I learnt that it would be possible
to add a fatal-like lintian rule to avoid qt6-dev being used in
Build-Dependencies. In fact, there is the possibility that some package
already does so. This would enable having this much wanted metapackage
(users tend to like having this option).

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