Needed suggestions for creating a QT5 patched libraries package

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Friday 18 March 2016 11:50:45 Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Hey Giovanni,
> 
> cool that you want to package telegram desktop.
> 
> > However, Telegram Desktop requires a patched version of QT5; this is not
> > a major issue, I've already created such a package, based on the latest
> > Debian/Ubuntu sources and build nicely.
> 
> Well a patched QT5 is a big issue. Because in debian we don't want to ship
> to versions of QT5. So if it is comiling is not the interessing point. The
> main question is, why they need this patch and if the patch is going to be
> included upstream. If it is approved from qt to be entered into mainline it
> is possible to include the patch also to older versions of QT5 packages.
> And for me the patch looks quite big:
> https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/Telegram/
> _qtbase_5_5_1_patch.diff

I have just looked over the patch. Those guys are doing it wrong: if you need 
that functionality you should push it upstream, not patch it like that.

I'm afraid that as long as your upstream does that kind of weird things it 
will not be possible to have their app in Debian.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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