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FS#17344 - [qt] update to 4.6 and removing patches
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Opened by Arvid Picciani (aep) - Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 06:44 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 13:22 GMT
Opened by Arvid Picciani (aep) - Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 06:44 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 13:22 GMT
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DetailsThe following changes have been made:
- update to qt 4.6.0, the latest stable upstream package. - removed kde patches. kde-copy by kde does not add any functionality needed by any other program. On the other hand it has introduced downstream bugs which break non kde programs. kde-copy is not supported upstream. The qt toolkit by trolltech is very open to contributions. If you wish specific changes, please see http://qt.nokia.com/developer/faqs/what-is-the-process-for-contributing-to-qt Archlinux is not the right place to add downstream features. - removed other patches. since they are broken, and in violation of the arch way, as they do not fix bugs but add unsuported features. - dbus is optional the fixes make dbus an optional dependency. This will leave the dbus qt module with an unstatisfied dependency to dbus. Programs that require dbus, need to explicitly link to it anyway (if they support debian, at least), so the depencendy chain won't break. It has the benefit that non-kde programs to not pull dbus. 
qt_nokde.patch
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Closed by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 13:22 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 13:22 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
The original maintainer should probably put this single patch back in.
1) quite unlikely; see mailinglist
2) already discussed upstream. Some patches are kept for compatibility and we have to recheck if they are still needed. But the situation has improved a lot since Qt 4.5. Which apps are broken due to those patches? If there are any it would make my decisions easier. (The use of kde-qt is/was recommend by KDE)
3)What is broken exactly? In fact removing those patches breaks KDE and QtCreator. Everything is documented and a link to the patch origin is given.
4) removing dbus has only downsides to me. In same rare cases user might save a few KB of disk space but we'll have to recheck and probably rebuild every package that depends on Qt and add a dependency to dbus.
i have been educated about the desired target users of archlinux,
and will resolve the issue outside the scope of this project.
Sorry for bothering you.