[Bug 735369] [NEW] Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

[Etienne Goyer]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bacula-console-qt

On lucid, in the Version Browser of bat, it is impossible to check the
latest version of a file.  This is described in the following upstream
bug report:  http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1550  (login using
anonymous/anonymous)

For convenience, here is the verbatim of the bug description:

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I often restore a single file, so I use Version Browser.

1) I browse for the file and when clicking on it, I see many different versions of it.
2) When I try to mark the file (tick the checkbox), it cannot be done
3) When I try to mark the most recent version of the file in 'Versions of File', it cannot be done
4) When I try to mark any other version of the file, it works OK
5) When there's another version of the file available (after the next backup), the version which couldn't be marked, can now be marked and the most recent can not

It seems to be so for every job and every file within a job.

I turned on all the debugging options of Bat, but there's nothing said when marking (or trying to) files/versions.
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Response from the lead developer of Bacula:

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I am unable to reproduce this. It works fine with my version of bat. You are using a bat that was most likely compiled with Qt 4.6.2, and bat is known not to work with all versions of Qt because they are, unfortunately, not compatible.

You must use a bat compiled with Qt 4.3.4. All the project binaries are compiled with Qt 4.3.4 using the released depkgs-qt code. 
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Lucid indeed ship with Qt 4.6.2.  I can confirm that bat does not show
this problem on maverick, which ship Qt 4.7.0.  To confirm the problem
is related to the version of Qt being used, I backported bacula-console-
qt (5.0.2) from maverick to lucid.  The resulting binary showed the same
bug as the bacula-console-qt package from lucid.

** Affects: bacula
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: bacula (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: bacula
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid