libqt3-compat-headers is a debian package containing headers from qt3 to help migrating from qt2 to qt3.
This is long ago. Qt people laughed at me when I asked about how long ago that would have been.
Apparantly, this package is still build-depended upon by 66 different debian packages. A big bunch of them are probably just leftovers from the past. The rest is probably a 5 minute job (+build time) pr package.
For me, it kind of makes the packages look kind of unmaintained.
grep-dctrl -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libqt3-compat-headers /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources to see the full list.
I just filed bugs with patches on 3 random of them.
Just curious: how many of them actually do require the qt3-compat -headers, yet?
I can count about 66 packages with that build-dependancy, it would be interesting to know how many of them can build fine even without that dependancy…
I took 4 more or less random so far. 2 needed 5 minutes work to build without it. 2 built without it without any other changes.