[oe] [meta-qt5][PATCH v2 05/11] qt5: disable debian auto renaming

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:07:15PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Samuli Piippo
>> <samuli.piippo at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>> > Some of the Qt modules have multiple libs, which prevents debian auto
>> > renaming to work correctly. Instead of only having some modules renamed,
>> > disable renaming for all Qt module packages, so that all they all are
>> > named as ${PN}.
>
> I don't think this explanation is good enough reason to disable debian
> renaming and that's why I didn't take it into master-next yet.
>
> The original idea was to let qt5 package with libraries coexist with qt4
> ones, I agree that not many people are using this, but on the other hand
> few people asked me to provide more granular packages for qt5, so
> instead of disabling debian rename everywhere why don't we split the
> packages with multiple libs or define LEAD_SONAME where one library is
> significantly more important than the rest and the package should be
> named after it?

I have mixed feelings about this. I do see the value of splitting it
more and I also see why people may want it in less fragmented set of
runtime packages.

Putting a second thought on this I think I agree with you. The
benefits of splitting it more are higher than having less runtime
packages.

I think we could take a look at the package split done in Debian for
inspiration and this would help to reduce many iterations to get this
right. What do you think?

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