Packaging guideline for a library using either Qt4 or Qt5

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 18:08:06 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 17:12 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> libQGLViewer (http://www.libqglviewer.com/) is a library that can be build 
> with either Qt4 or Qt5, with recent versions.
> 
> I am considering providing packages build with both Qt4 and Qt5. I personally 
> need both versions for my daily job (to test compatibility). I do not think we 
> already have such libraries in Fedora. Do we have relevant packaging 
> guidelines for such a case?

It's pretty similar to the case of Python2 and Python3, as detailed at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python . I guess the principles
there are generally applicable.
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