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[PATCH 0/2] gnu: nomacs: Update to 3.21.1.

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Message #17 received at 78360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 78360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, z572 <at> z572.online, iyzsong <at> envs.net,
 maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add quazip-qt6.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 15:52:12 +0200

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> writes:

> Hello Sergey,
>
> thanks for the patch, it is always good to get rid of Qt5 dependencies!
>
> However, I am not convinced about the order of things:
> Why add the "-qt6" suffix to the name, in particular since Qt6 should be
> the standard now? I think it would be better to do things as with qtbase:
> Keep the "name" field the same; rename the quazip variable to quazip-5; 
> adapt the packages that currently have quazip as input to use quazip-5.
>
> I am cc-ing the qt team since they are more competent to give advice.
>

A couple reasons:
- there already is quazip-0 variable, quazip-6 or quazip-5 look odd
- having two packages under the same name and version leads to
ambiguity, i.e. `guix build quazip <at> 1.4` would build only one of these
- a couple other packages follow -qt6 naming scheme, I've followed these steps

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