Bug 482393

Summary:	qtpaths6 is missing in qt6-base
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	tomkneiphof
Component:	Packages User Edition	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	carlosd.kde, jr, meven29, nate, neon-bugs-null, nmariusp1, rf-kde, sitter
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	qt6
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description tomkneiphof 2024-03-04 15:48:15 UTC

SUMMARY
qtpaths6 is missing in qt6-base

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Run /usr/lib/qt6/qtpaths6

OBSERVED RESULT
No such file or directory

EXPECTED RESULT
Run qtpaths6

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.0
KDE Frameworks Version:  6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Méven Car 2024-03-06 08:22:37 UTC

In (k)ubuntu it is located at `/usr/bin/qtpaths6` in `qt6-base-dev-tools` package:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/amd64/qt6-base-dev-tools/filelist

Comment 2 Marius P 2024-03-07 20:59:01 UTC

How to find in which Debian/Ubuntu deb file a certain file is located:

sudo apt install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search qtpaths6
# Says:
# qt6-base-dev-tools: /usr/bin/qtpaths6     
# qt6-base-dev-tools: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6

Comment 3 tomkneiphof 2024-03-08 09:40:44 UTC

Maybe qt6-base-dev-tools is actually the correct package to contain qtpaths{6}.
I was just wondering, because `/usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths` was present **without** the qt6-base-dev-tools packages and it symlinks to `/usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6`, which was not present...

Now I'm confused:
Using dpkg -S I get the following packages:
```
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths
qt6-base: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6
qt6-base-dev: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6
```
Using apt-file I get the following packages:
```
$ apt-file search /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths
qt6-base-dev-tools: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths
qt6-base-dev-tools: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6
$ apt-file search /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6
qt6-base-dev-tools: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6
```

If apt-file is correct, then everything seems to be fine.
But if dpkg -S is correct, something is wrong.
One of those commands must be lying.

Comment 4 Carlos De Maine 2024-03-12 09:44:07 UTC

good catch.  debian packaging does indeed symlink certainly binaries in /usr/lib/qt6/bin out into /usr/bin/ with a 6 suffix to avoid clashes with past versions named the same.  i clumped them all together to simplify packaging but didn't take into account that if the qt6-base-dev metapackage wasn't installed the symlinks to dev binaries would dangle.  fixed with https://invent.kde.org/neon/qt6/qt6-base/-/commit/0cc81415aeaa773f8fb882607e2b6668f8e8eb64.

Comment 5 René Fritz 2024-12-12 16:58:56 UTC

qtpaths is used by some install scripts of dolphin service menus.

With KDE 5 there was a tool (kdeconfig?) which was always present and used by such install scripts.

It seems to be overkill to install qt-base-dev just to get qtpaths installed. Would be nice to have that in qt6-base instead.

Comment 6 Carlos De Maine 2025-01-17 08:03:59 UTC

(In reply to René Fritz from comment #5)
> qtpaths is used by some install scripts of dolphin service menus.
> 
> With KDE 5 there was a tool (kdeconfig?) which was always present and used
> by such install scripts.
> 
> It seems to be overkill to install qt-base-dev just to get qtpaths
> installed. Would be nice to have that in qt6-base instead.

whilst we deviate quite a bit from upstream ubuntu/debian packaging in some areas, i think this might be a step to far.  either the dolphin service menus need to find a different method to find the relevant paths or qt6-base-dev needs to be installed.