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Re: Bug#1034830: qtbase5-private-dev ships header that requires cbor.h without dependency



Hi all!

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:21:45PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge Qt installs lots of really not-required headers in 
> it's private stuff. If you ask them it's for the sake of simplicity, as you are 
> not supposed to use private headers...
>
> The reason we export those private headers is because we build Qt by 
> submodules instead of a big huuuge build including webengine et all, and Qt 
> submodules do have internal private dependencies.
>
> So yes, it is a valid bug, but I am afraid that it will be too hard to get 
> that right. Non the less I really appreciate you filing this bug report, it is 
> a good thing to have it around.
>
> @Dmitry: I would mark this as wontfix, what do you think?

Well, if adding just one small dependency will make Steve's script happy,
then I don't mind doing it. But if we are talking about a dozen of extra
dependencies, I would rather not do it. Or maybe they should be Recommends or
Suggests.

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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