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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 16:29:17
Message-ID: r11kkt$39t2$2 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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Rex Dieter wrote:

> 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).

I suppose I could just make it easier on myself and just use rpmdev-bumpspec 
tool on dependencies too.  Historically, I've tried to make an effort to 
keep branches merged, at least for those packages/maintainers that prefer to 
do it that way.

-- rex
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