Qt Assistant is no longer a development tool.

[renaudg]

Binary package hint: qt4-dev-tools

Qt assistant is used by the Qt framework for displaying and browsing the Qt documentation. But Qt software strongly recommands to use it as documention viewer for all Qt applications. So, if users of my program want to see the documention they must install this package: qt4-dev-tools. Which installs few other tools and dependencies.
I think, It will be really useful to make a Qt assistant standalone package (without the Qt documentation, linguist and designer).

I'm not sure it is the right place to describe this issue.

[thefluxster (buy-ikentech)]

Agree. At the very least, if Qt Assistant is not made standalone then it should be a dependent of Qt Designer. Otherwise, if Qt Assistant isn't pulled from the qt4-dev-tools package, then Qt Designer should *REQUIRE* qt4-dev-tools as a dependant. Otherwise, users will install Qt Designer and not have any way of figuring out why they don't have help menu options available once installed.

As a workaround, users who have installed Qt Designer must then install (through Synaptic Package Manager) "qt4-dev-tools". That also adds a bunch of stuff they don't need, but at least they can then use the help system for Qt Designer.

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

Qt Assistant is not ship anymore in Qt package in Maverick. We are waiting the tarball for make a Qt assistant standalone package.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Setting to fixed as qt-assistant-compat is in the archive.