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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: KF 5.37 requiring Qt 5.7
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2017-08-07 15:36:05
Message-ID: oma1cv$khe$1 () blaine ! gmane ! org
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David Faure wrote:

> On lundi 7 août 2017 16:46:59 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
>> David Faure wrote:
>> > On mercredi 2 août 2017 22:55:10 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
>> >> David Faure wrote:
>> >> > According to the policy that KF5 should work with the last 3
>> >> > releases of Qt5.x, it is time now for upcoming releases of KF5 to
>> >> > drop support for Qt 5.6.
>> >> > 
>> >> > Packagers: is that acceptable?
>> >> 
>> >> I'd prefer to continue to allow 5.6 awhile, to continue to allow
>> >> support for rhel 7.
>> > 
>> > That's curious, how do you package the parts of KDE Applications or
>> > Workspace that already require Qt 5.7 ?
>> 
>> I haven't packaged those pieces yet.
>> 
>> Sounds like you may have moved forward anyway, so I guess I'll have to
>> start
>> the process of removing KF5 from the EPEL addon repository for rhel7.  I
>> shame, I and a few others did a fair amount of work to get that in.
> 
> Isn't it an option to leave it in, at version 5.36, rather than removing
> it completely ?

In the short-term, yes.

Long term, I'm not willing to ship (and support) this if it's not supported 
upstream either (where bugs are usually fixed in newer releases).

-- Rex


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