{"id":79,"date":"2012-03-28T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T08:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/johu\/?p=79"},"modified":"2023-07-31T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T07:10:50","slug":"gentoo-qt-team-march-2012-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/johu\/2012\/03\/28\/gentoo-qt-team-march-2012-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo Qt Team March 2012 meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:\u00a025 March 2012<\/strong>
\nTime:\u00a01300 UTC<\/strong>
\nPlace:\u00a0#gentoo-meetings\u00a0<\/strong>@freenode<\/p>\n

The full meeting log can be found\u00a0here<\/a>. Meeting summary is written by kensington.<\/p>\n

1) Roll call<\/strong>
\nhwoarang, johu, pesa, tampakrap, wired, yngwin<\/p>\n

2) Qt 5<\/strong>
\n* pesa is working on it locally, and started a new eclass from scratch. He’ll
\npush to the overlay once upstream settles down, probably after a packaged alpha
\nis released (note that binary compatibility is not guaranteed with the final
\nrelease).<\/p>\n

* Upstream is planning split tarballs for later releases, and we’re going to
\nfollow that except for qtbase, which will probably be split the same as in Qt 4
\n– qt-{core,gui,sql,dbus}.<\/p>\n

* Need to handle slotting of qmake. Any ebuild calling qmake directly should be
\nfixed to use eqmake{4,5}. Autotools etc. is sometimes used to detect qmake which
\nshouldn’t be broken. qmake{4,5} will probably suffice, but we should watch
\nupstreams \/ other distros to see what they do, and revisit the issue later.<\/p>\n

3) qt4.eclass deprecation<\/strong>
\n* wired maintains a list of ebuilds still using the class:
\n http:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~wired\/checks\/qt4.eclass.html<\/a> and there are about 60 left
\nin the tree<\/p>\n

* We should try to clear out the ebuilds in testing first. Since there is a
\nrepoman warning, we can start filing bugs \/ stable requests to get them fixed.<\/p>\n

4) Unmaintained\/obsolete packages<\/strong>
\n* qgtkstyle – this is duplicated in qt-gui[gtkstyle]. hwoarang will lastrite it
\nso it can be treecleaned.<\/p>\n

* qvfb – it is stuck at 4.6.3 and nothing in the tree uses it, so we don’t care
\nabout it. Since is has no bugs there’s no need to remove it, so hwoarang will
\nset it to maintainer-needed.<\/p>\n

5) Get eclass translation handling into official tree<\/strong>
\n* The code in the overlay covers enough cases to make it worth merging it to the
\ntree. pesa will submit the code to the dev mailing list for review before it it
\nis merged into qt4-r2.<\/p>\n

* With regards to eclass development in the future, we want to change the
\nworkflow to match how the KDE herd does it. That is, replace qt4-edge with
\nqt4-r2 and use the overlay as a staging area.<\/p>\n

6) Open bugs<\/strong>
\n* Bug #398885<\/a> – x11-libs\/qt-assistant-4.7.4 qdoc3 loops forever on arm & ppc<\/em>
\nThis is blocking 4.7.4 stabilising on arm and is therefore a high priority. ppc
\nalready stabilised, so the bug might only affect certain machines. We should
\nretry the out-of-portage build (see comment #1) and investigate further.<\/p>\n

* Bug #367583<\/a> – x11-libs\/qt-dbus-4.7.2 –<\/em>
\n ..\/..\/include\/QtCore\/..\/..\/src\/corelib\/arch\/qatomic_generic.h:197: error:<\/em>
\n invalid conversion from \u2018const void*\u2019 to \u2018void*\u2019<\/em>
\nWe have two candidate patches to choose from – one eclass, one code. pesa will
\ntry to get an opinion from upstream about the code patch.<\/p>\n

* Bug #401557<\/a> – x11-libs\/qt-core-4.8 –<\/em>
\n hint: qt-4.8 : add a ewarn to recompile cairo *after* qt-4.8<\/em>
\nwired will add a warning to either qt-core or qt-gui.<\/p>\n

* Bug #398497<\/a> – \/usr\/include\/qt4\/Gentoo\/gentoo-qconfig.h should be under package<\/em>
\n manager control<\/em>
\nThis bug is probably the result of an oversight by the original eclass authors,
\nand we agree that the file should indeed be under package manager control.<\/p>\n

* Bug #372721<\/a> – [qt overlay] x11-libs\/libmeegotouch-9999 doesn’t compile<\/em>
\nNobody cares about this package, so pesa will remove it from the overlay and
\nmark it WONTFIX.<\/p>\n

* Bug #388551<\/a> – x11-libs\/qt-gui should depend on gnome-base\/libgnomeui-2 when<\/em>
\n USE=”gtkstyle” is enabled<\/em>
\nDuring the last meeting we decided to add an elog, but nobody actually did it.<\/p>\n

* Bug #285743<\/a> – “webkit” USE flag standardization<\/em>
\nWe decided to do this 2 years ago, but never got around to it. The flag mostly
\nhas two meanings: (1) add support for HTML rendering and (2) build bindings for
\nWebKit. wired will propose (1) to the dev mailing list: “Enable support for the
\nWebKit html rendering engine”, and (2) can be a local flag description.<\/p>\n

* Bug #404283<\/a> – media-gfx\/imagemagick – convert: unable to close module `SVG’:<\/em>
\n \/usr\/lib64\/qt4\/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol:<\/em>
\n _ZN11QMetaObject11removeGuardEPP7QObject @<\/em>
\n warning\/module.c\/UnregisterModule\/1605.<\/em>
\nwired will request more information from the reporter.<\/p>\n

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