[arch-general] Qt4 / Qt5 package naming

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Friday 18 Apr 2014 10:29:56 Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> Hi
> 
> With Qt5 becoming more and more available throughout Qt apps
> (especially as KDE progresses into the switch), I think it's time to
> consider adopting an updated naming scheme.
> 
> IMHO:
> - Qt4 apps should use the -qt4 suffix
> - Qt5 apps should not use any suffix or prefix
> - Qt libraries should probably use a qt- prefix. (eg what is currently
> qt5-base, qt5-doc etc should become qt-base, qt-location). Or
> alternatively, no prefix at all and use upstream naming scheme
> (qtbase, qtlocation, ...)

I'm not a big fan of this transition happening for every major Qt release. Is there a 
significant downside to keeping both -qt4 and -qt5 in package names?

Paul