Bug#816250: qt4-x11: Build Qt4 Multimedia module (QtMobility not in Debian anymore)

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

No I didn't. I won't re add/start compiling again a Qt 4 module for the
reasons I wrote in my previous mail.

If you need the functionality you should really consider switching to Qt 5

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Bug#816250: qt4-x11: Build Qt4 Multimedia module (QtMobility not in Debian anymore)

[Hendrik Sattler]

Hi, 

you obviously misunderstood the intention of the bug report. It's not about 
reintroducing QtMobility but compiling Qt4 with the modules it provides instead 
of crippling it on purpose.


Am 29. Februar 2016 12:59:11 MEZ, schrieb "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" 
:
>severity 816250 wishlist
>tag 816250 wontfix
>thanks
>
>On Monday 29 February 2016 07:51:35 Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>[snip] 
>> Although not very welcome in the past, it was at least possibly to
>use
>> classes from Qt4 Multimedia module in Debian when using QtMobility
>> MultmediaKit. The latter was removed from Debian and the former was
>not
>> built because the latter was in Debian. This obviously changed, so
>the
>> reasoning for not building Qt4 Multimedia module is not valid
>anymore.
>
>
>The mobility stack was removed because it was buggy and had a handful
>of 
>rdeps, which we've got to remove. If it had just a few rdeps then it's
>not 
>that needed, and the same could be said for the multimedia stack.

Etra dependencies are libasound. Wow. Unresolvable. Either you did not even try 
or you must be joking.

>Qt4 is dead upstream in all senses. So a non upstream-supported stack
>is 
>indeed a very good reason to avoid reintroducing it to the archive.

Qt4.8 is still maintained until 5.6 is really released although only minimal. 
And it does not get immediately obsolete even then.

>> And no, not everyone ported to Qt5, yet. :-)
>
>This sounds like a good reason to start with the porting :)

Haha. Is that really the policy of Debian to cripple libraries to enforce extra 
work?

>Sorry, but if you really need the multimedia bits you should really
>consider 
>using Qt5.

Please uncripple Qt4 in Debian! And please read the Qt4 Debian changlog on the 
initial nonsense that lead to this bug report.

HS

Bug#816250: qt4-x11: Build Qt4 Multimedia module (QtMobility not in Debian anymore)

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

severity 816250 wishlist
tag 816250 wontfix
thanks

On Monday 29 February 2016 07:51:35 Hendrik Sattler wrote:
[snip] 
> Although not very welcome in the past, it was at least possibly to use
> classes from Qt4 Multimedia module in Debian when using QtMobility
> MultmediaKit. The latter was removed from Debian and the former was not
> built because the latter was in Debian. This obviously changed, so the
> reasoning for not building Qt4 Multimedia module is not valid anymore.


The mobility stack was removed because it was buggy and had a handful of 
rdeps, which we've got to remove. If it had just a few rdeps then it's not 
that needed, and the same could be said for the multimedia stack.

Qt4 is dead upstream in all senses. So a non upstream-supported stack is 
indeed a very good reason to avoid reintroducing it to the archive.

> And no, not everyone ported to Qt5, yet. :-)

This sounds like a good reason to start with the porting :)

Sorry, but if you really need the multimedia bits you should really consider 
using Qt5.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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Bug#816250: qt4-x11: Build Qt4 Multimedia module (QtMobility not in Debian anymore)

[Hendrik Sattler]

Source: qt4-x11
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Although not very welcome in the past, it was at least possibly to use classes
from Qt4 Multimedia module in Debian when using QtMobility MultmediaKit.
The latter was removed from Debian and the former was not built because the
latter was in Debian. This obviously changed, so the reasoning for not  
building

Qt4 Multimedia module is not valid anymore.

And no, not everyone ported to Qt5, yet. :-)

Regards,

Hendrik Sattler

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