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Re: Qt 4.6 conflicts with upcoming Maemo5 releases?

Hi,

Same issue here, can't send my app to autobuilder due do broken dep it seem. Was building fine two days ago

Fabrice

Re: Qt 4.6 conflicts with upcoming Maemo5 releases?

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Originally Posted by slender (Post 520768)

We know what to do because extras testing is extras testing and if you have problems with it, then make bug report and reflash. Simple as that.

How did I not think about it? ;) Simple as hell.
:D

Re: Qt 4.6 conflicts with upcoming Maemo5 releases?

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Originally Posted by torpedo48 (Post 520164)

I've recently seen this service message in many applications's testing pages in Extras Testing:

What does that mean? I've already installed Qt 4.6 (as dependencies of many Extras-Testing apps), will I have problems with upcoming firmware upgrades? Should I remove them?

P.S.: sorry if I'm talking nonsense ;)

Not nonsense at all.

The Qt4.6 libraries in extras-devel and now -testing are optified, i.e. they reside in the /opt directory. The final Qt4.6 libraries will not be in /opt, so this is more about preventing a lot of people having Qt4.6 libraries in two places.
Also the devel libraries are named 'wrong' to avoid the name collusion with the current Qt4.5 libraries.

On top of that the people working with Qt objected to the idea that their work in progress would be promoted to extras. They want to make it good and final and then get it out properly.

As for firmware upgrade, no problems there. Even if you have the devel libraries on device, the upgrade will go through fine. You just end up with two copies of the libraries, then it is time to remove the devel versions (once the packages that depend on them are changed to depend on the final Qt version).

I hope that was somewhat clear :)

Re: Qt 4.6 conflicts with upcoming Maemo5 releases?

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Originally Posted by tekojo (Post 521673)

Also the devel libraries are named 'wrong' to avoid the name collusion with the current Qt4.5 libraries.

As the Qt4.6 libraries are not API or ABI compatible with the Qt 4.5 libraries, then I would have thought that a different name was a necessity anyway, otherwise incompatible applications will still be installable.