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Bug 1153827
| Summary: | Embarrassingly poor summary and description | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael> |
| Component: | qtchooser | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 21 | CC: | jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, than |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | qtchooser-39-5.fc21 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-11-01 16:24:34 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 895149 | ||
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Description
Michael Schwendt
2014-10-16 21:58:16 UTC
A better description would be "Useless broken tool from Qt upstream that nobody in Fedora should use, ever". The same effect can be trivially had by setting PATH, without all those useless wrapper binaries. And it is primarily a workaround for broken build systems to begin with. Finding the correct Qt major version to compile a program with is something the program should do, selecting a Qt only makes sense within a major version, if at all (with very few exceptions, where a library can be built against either Qt 4 or Qt 5, but then that's really a configure option for the program/library). The Summary and %description that you propose doesn't mention anywhere that this program does not make sense on Fedora to begin with, so it misleads users into thinking that we actually support it. And yes, the best way to avoid misleading users would be to not ship this broken package at all. Can't we just retire it and be done with it? Kevin, <sarcasm>thanks so much for the constructive feedback</sarcasm> We know well how you feel about this tool, if you don't like it, fine, don't use it. Ignore it please. qtchooser-39-4.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qtchooser-39-4.fc21 The thing is, I still believe that shipping qtchooser actually makes Fedora worse (because it confuses users about what the optimal and recommended way to set up Qt is, because it introduces bugs such as this one without introducing any useful functionality etc.) and that it gives us work and a support burden that is entirely unnecessary. Package qtchooser-39-4.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing qtchooser-39-4.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-13125/qtchooser-39-4.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback). Package qtchooser-39-5.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing qtchooser-39-5.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-13125/qtchooser-39-5.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback). qtchooser-39-5.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |