[Development] Any history on why "qtmultimedia5-private-dev" was removed.

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

Being the one who removed the package...

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 05:22, Paul Knopf <pauldotknopf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, I understand the reasoning, because of lack of ABI compat with minor updates/patches, etc.

...exactly. Private API is one of the reasons we don't update Qt more often.

> However, our proprietary GUI needs it. I'll work on recompiling that module with private headers and deploy the deb within our own internal apt-feed.

Remember that multimedia is under both LGPL-3 and GPL3. Depending on
the usage you give it you might (or not) need a commercial license.

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