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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: [security] only latest Qt 5.14.1 has all fixes
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2020-01-31 16:26:19
Message-ID: r11kfc$39t2$1 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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Damian Ivanov wrote:

>>Bumping Qt versions is... a fairly difficult process in fedora,
>>unfortunately.
> 
> Introducing a new Qt version could be very simple I think:
> 1) Branch all Qt related packages (it should be with a one line
> command or using a web interface)
> 2) Edit package version number (with a per project (like Qt:5.14.1
> project) macro - 1 digit changed/or two)
> 3) Wait for packages to be published into repo (and that repo contains
> all packages - without spec change - that use Qt priv headers).
> 4) Fix eventual build failures due to re based patches etc.
> 5) optional: Press push to start a request to get this merged into main
> repo.

Building the core Qt packages is the easy part.  We have that largely 
scripted and semi-automated.

The (much) harder part is coordinating rebuilds of all the other packages 
that depend on private Qt5 api's  (I wish there weren't so many).

-- Rex
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