Bug#1141084: qt6-svg-dev: Dropping Provides: libqt6svg6-dev broke many packages

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:15:41 +0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.qt-kde
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 07:46:44PM +0200, Patrick Franz wrote:
>>  Are there any specific plans to finish this transition?
>
>My plan was to file bugs against the affected packages but I wanted to
>give them some time to fix it on their own.

I see.

Please consider that in Debian the way "to give them some time to fix it 
on their own" is the one I described: to file non-RC bugs before 
the change or, if for some reason that wasn't done, at least to file RC 
ones after it. Currently the way it is going to be fixed is, instead of 
maintainers learning from the BTS that their packages need to be fixed, is 
one of these:

* the maintainer tries to make a new upload, finds that their package 
   FTBFS
* somebody tries to rebuild the package, finds that it FTBFS, files an RC 
   bug - this is going to happen for at least some of them due to ongoing 
   transitions, this is how I learned about this issue
* a routine mass QA rebuild finds that the package FTBFS, the rebuilder 
   files an RC bug

This is inconvenient for everyone involved and can take indeterminate 
amount of time. And, it seems, even fixed package won't migrate until all 
of them get fixed and qt6-svg is unblocked.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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