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

[Paul Knopf]

I'm not arguing with that logic.

What that said, what is the Debian policy with regard to what dev packages
should be added/removed to the official distro?

>From what I'm hearing, I gather it's something like "Debian supports
end-user commands/services/applications and the support libraries needed to
run them, as well as the dev packages needed to that end."

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:07 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <
perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Being the one who removed the package...
>
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 05:22, Paul Knopf <pauldotknopf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
> http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
>
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