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qt4-x11 package

*-qt4 tools should be present in $QTDIR/bin

Bug #121872 reported by Maia Everett on 2007-06-23

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

Yes, they are in /usr/bin.

The problem is, some configure scripts (Avidemux, for instance) assume that these binaries are located in the Qt directory (/usr/share/qt4/bin) AND have -qt4 in their names, whereas this is not the case: there exist /usr/bin/moc-qt4 (for instance) and /usr/share/qt4/bin/moc, which is a symlink to it, but not /usr/share/qt4/bin/moc-qt4.

Since symlinks are cheap, I think the package maintainer can simply add these symlinks, which would duplicate the number of symlinks in /usr/share/qt4/bin but won't have any system overhead.

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-07-17:

qt4-extralinks.diff Edit (724 bytes, text/plain)

Attaching patch for debian/links.

Maia Everett (linneris) on 2007-07-26

Changed in qt4-x11:
status:	New → In Progress

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-08-21:

Jonathan: can you check this patch out?

Changed in qt4-x11:
assignee:	nobody → jr

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote on 2007-10-04:

I don't want to apply this patch. the -qt4 binary names are, as far as I know, only existant in Debian and Kubuntu and we don't install them to $QTDIR. I've no idea where Avidemux expects this to happen but I don't think we should be encouraging broken build systems.