On 4 December 2013 13:52, Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > qreal is a Qt typedef that used to be defined as float on ARM and > double on all other platforms. > > However, since Qt 5.2 release candidate 1, qreal is double everywhere > (in Debian we are considering to keep it double on armel, but that > isn’t relevant to Ubuntu). Please be prepared to update your packages > if they rely on the old behaviour. > > We will probably need to do a transition (i.e. rebuild everything > that has armhf binaries), however the problem is that upstream did > not bump the SONAME of Qt libraries, so we are considering doing the > bump as a Debian/Ubuntu-specific change. > > Feel free to express your opinion about (not) bumping the SONAME at > http://bugs.debian.org/731261 (that bug also contains links to > previous discussions on this subject). >
This has been discussed at the last vUDS: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/meeting/21986/core-1311-qt5-versions-in-ubuntu/ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/core-1311-qt5-versions-in-ubuntu And it's agreed that we do want to take up the transition. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
