Comment 3 for bug 279570

> I doubt that this does not happen when building from source.

Do you doubt my word? To clarify: the problem didn't happen here, not because the taskmanager_export.h got installed (which wasn't the case), but because taskmanager.h no longer refered to it. In that sense, the summary of this bug mentioning a "missing file" is only a problem description, I don't wish to express that the issue should be fixed by providing such a file.

Steps to reproduce:
1. sudo apt-get build-dep kdebase-workspace-dev
2. apt-get source kdebase-workspace-dev
3. cd kdebase-workspace-4.1.2
4. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
5. cd ..
6. dpkg-deb -x kdebase-workspace-dev_4.1.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb myDev
7. diff -U1 {,myDev}/usr/include/taskmanager/taskmanager.h

--- /usr/include/taskmanager/taskmanager.h
+++ dev1/usr/include/taskmanager/taskmanager.h
@@ -28,5 +28,4 @@
 // Own
-#include <taskmanager/startup.h>
-#include <taskmanager/task.h>
-#include <taskmanager/taskmanager_export.h>
+#include "startup.h"
+#include "task.h"

@@ -43,3 +42,3 @@
  */
-class TASKMANAGER_EXPORT TaskManager : public QObject
+class KDE_EXPORT TaskManager : public QObject
 {

> [...] taskmanager/CMakeLists.txt [...]
> Note the last line.

Tells me that some file called taskmanager.h gets installed, and probably no taskmanager_export.h. Doesn't say a word about whether or not the taskmanager.h references a taskmanager_export.h or not. For that see the source of the header: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.1/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskmanager.h?view=markup

> Anyway, please report individual bugs

I'll report the others seperately once this here is done, to avoid redundant discussion.

> But at the KDE bug tracker http://bugs.kde.org these things should
> be fixed in KDE, and KDE only, anything else would make Kubuntu's
> behavior differ too much from KDE.

To report this upstream I'd have to explain how KDE is to blame for the ubuntu package containing a file so different from the one shipped with the KDE sources. As I can't even reproduce this different file, I think it unlikely that the cause lies somewhere in the KDE managed code. Unless you convince me otherwise, I'll consider this an Ubuntu bug.

Right now, the issue looks to me as if the ubuntu packager had slipped some modified header file into the package at some point during the packaging process, without any reference in the rules file or anywhere wlse in the debian directory. As the taskmanager.h in the source tree stays unmodified during the build, and no taskmanager_export.h seems to get generated, I cannot account for this file in any other way. But I'm not that experienced in either Debian packaging or KDE development, so maybe there is some way I didn't know about, which does such modifications but won't affect my local builds.