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

[Paul Knopf]

Yeah, I understand the reasoning, because of lack of ABI compat with minor
updates/patches, etc.

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.

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:04 AM Pier Luigi Fiorini <
pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Il giorno ven 29 nov 2019 alle ore 08:44 Paul Knopf <
> pauldotknopf at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> I'm working on getting Debian 10 working for my Linux appliance/device
>> and our GUI uses Qt.
>>
>> Specifically, it uses "CONFIG+=multimedia-private".
>>
>> There seems to be a bunch of private Qt headers in the official repos,
>> but non for qtmultimedia5.
>>
>> There looks to be history of "qtmultimedia5-private-dev", but it doesn't
>> exist anywhere anymore.
>>
>> I found this:
>> https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/q/qtmultimedia-opensource-src/unstable_changelog
>>
>> ---
>>   * Remove package qtmultimedia5-private-dev. Nothing in the Qt stack
>> seems to
>>     be using it. Can be reintroduced later if needed.
>>     - Remove associated install file.
>>     - Remove the files from debian/tmp before installing the packages.
>> ---
>>
>> Can anyone provide me with some context?
>>
>
> Debian doesn't ship private headers, unless they are needed by the Qt
> stack.
> Using private headers in third party applications is not recommended.
>
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