Re: Bug#1057359: qmake: use qmake6 when QT_SELECT=qt6

> This is also being used in src:explosive-c4 now and the approach breaks
> cross compilation. Please stop doing this, we'll have to touch all of
> these.
> 
> Still the use case is real and we need a better way to build packages
> with qmake6. I was talking with Sune and Lisandro on IRC and their
> consensus seems to have been that qtchooser and QT_SELECT are dead and
> should not be used for Qt6. They suggested that we add add a new
> --buildsystem to debhelper. We already have qmake_qt4 and qmake, why not
> have qmake6? While changing QT_SELECT from qt5 to qt6 would be
> convenient, changing it to "dh $@ --buildsystem qmake6" is easy enough,
> no? The qmake6 build system can reuse qmake just like qmake_qt4 and
> doing it that way immediately makes cross compilation just work (since
> we already have <triplet>-qmake6). Lisandro requested naming it qmake6
> rather than qmake_qt6. Even though this breaks consistency with earlier
> use in debhelper, the similarity to how upstream calls it more
> important.
> 
> Salvo and Alexandre, do you second this?

It would be fine by me, I hope it should be cleaner than how it was to go from 
4 to 5.




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Salvo Tomaselli

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senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
                -- Galileo Galilei

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