Ubuntu
qca package

Please sync qca 2.0.0~beta7 from Debian experimental (+more tasks)

Bug #128505 reported by Maia Everett on 2007-07-26

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
mailody (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
psi (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
qca (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
qca2 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The QCA library (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qca) is currently used by:

- psi
- mailody

The problem that will arise with the sync is: QCA1 is a Qt3 library used by Qt3 applications; QCA2 is a Qt4 library used by Qt4 applications. Both, however, are managed in Debian as the same source package (qca; http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qca.html) and their binaries are conflicting (libqca.so). QCA1 programs cannot be easily ported to QCA2.

While the Debian source package for QCA2 is qca, the Ubuntu source package qca2 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qca2) has spent quite some time in NEW - since July 9 - and is now outdated. It should probably be nuked.

Psi version 0.11 RC2 uses Qt4 and requires QCA2 version 2.0.0 beta7 - the version currently in Debian experimental. So we can sync that and package Psi. (Bug #120315 is dedicated to packaging Psi 0.11).

Mailody is a more complicated case, there is no public Qt4/QCA2 release yet, although porting efforts are underway. I will inquire toma about their status.

For now, as a temporary solution until the Qt4 versions are accepted into Ubuntu, we can do the following:

1. Move source package qca to another name (changing the library name correspondingly).
2. Rebuild current versions of psi and mailody against the new package.
3. Sync qca_2.0.0~beta7 from Debian.
4. Upgrade psi from 0.10 to 0.11~rc2 (bug #120315).

Debdiffs to follow.

See original description

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-07-26:

qca-qt3_1.0-8ubuntu1.debdiff Edit (8.4 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff #1 changes the qca 1.0 package. The renames are as follows:

- Source package: qca -> qca-qt3
- Binary package: libqca1c2 -> libqca-qt3
- Binary package: qca-dev -> libqca-qt3-dev
- Shared library: libqca.so* -> libqca-qt3.so*

The orig.tar.gz will have to be renamed to qca-qt3_1.0.orig.tar.gz.

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-07-26:

psi_0.10-2ubuntu3.debdiff Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff #2 fixes psi to link against -lqca-qt3 instead of -lqca.

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-07-26:

mailody_0.5.0-2ubuntu2.debdiff Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff #3 fixes mailody to link against -lqca-qt3 instead of -lqca.

Important: even though it's -2ubuntu2, the original Debian package (which is the current Debian version) is -1. The previous uploader erroneously followed -1 with -2ubuntu1.

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Maia Everett (linneris) on 2007-07-26

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Frode M. Døving (frode) wrote on 2007-07-28:

There is no usable mailody4 yet.
For various reasons the progress is slow. Don't expect any usable release until after the KDE 4.0 release.

For the record. mailody 0.5.0-2 made it into debian today. With the same fix I added to ubuntu the other day, versioned 0.5.0-2ubuntu1.

We should probably consider working with the Debian KDE Extras Team on these changes.

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Tom Albers (tomalbers-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-07-28:

(as maintainer of mailody) : maildody for kde4 as it is now, will not use qca2

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-07-29:

I have just inquired the Debian maintainer for qca and psi (<email address hidden>) why he's maintaining two different libraries as the same source package.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-08-02:

Please tell us the answer, when you find out.

Obviously, doing this within Debian QT KDE extras would be smart, as they hit the same problem.

unsubscribing u-u-s, subscribing myself (as i'm not sure the solution is the best way to go)

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Ana Beatriz Guerrero López (ana) wrote on 2007-08-02:

About this, please read:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435185

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-08-02:

The answer was:

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:44:55AM +0700, Sikon wrote:
> Can you please explain why you're maintaining two completely different
> libraries (QCA1 for Qt3 and QCA2 for Qt4) as the same source package?

Because I think we should agree on a common packaging soon, I opened a
bug on the debian bts as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435185

Feel free to comment there, as well (mailto:<email address hidden>).

BTW, is mailing to <bug-number>@bugs.launchpad.net sufficient to add
comments to ubuntu bugs? I sent a Cc: of my last mail to
<email address hidden>, but it didn't yet show up on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qca/+bug/128505, so I wonder
if I missed something.

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote on 2007-08-12:

#10

Marked the bug as invalid. qca and qca2 are now separate packages for both Debian and Ubuntu, and Debian's qca2 2.0.0~beta7 has been added to Ubuntu.

Changed in qca:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in qca2:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in psi:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in mailody:
status:	New → Invalid