Changing our minimum requirements to those of Ubuntu 20.04

[Yuri Chornoivan]

субота, 12 вересня 2020 р. 19:00:46 EEST Albert Astals Cid написано:
> El dissabte, 12 de setembre de 2020, a les 17:19:21 CEST, Yuri Chornoivan va 
escriure:
> > субота, 12 вересня 2020 р. 18:17:02 EEST Albert Astals Cid написано:
> > > El diumenge, 26 d’abril de 2020, a les 17:34:42 CEST, Albert Astals Cid
> > > va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > > Hi, i want to propose to increase our minimum requirements to those of
> > > > Ubuntu 20.04
> > > > 
> > > > Qt 5.12
> > > > cmake 3.17
> > > > KF5 5.68
> > > > 
> > > > There's versions of fedora and opensuse with those so it doesn't seem
> > > > controversial.
> > > > 
> > > > The most controversial would be poppler, that would raise the
> > > > requirement
> > > > to 0.86, effectively 0.80 since we don't use any 0.81, 0.82, 0.83,
> > > > 0.84
> > > > or 0.85 API.
> > > > 
> > > > This means that none of the opensuse Leap would be able to compile the
> > > > PDF
> > > > backend, only opensuse tumbleweed.
> > > > 
> > > > How problematic do you think that is?
> > > > 
> > > > Keep in mind this would be only for master so for the release
> > > > happening in
> > > > August.
> > > 
> > > Ping, how do you feel about it now for the 20.12 release?
> > > 
> > > Yuri, you were ones that mention that this increase may block you from
> > > compiling. Has this been resolved?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > >   Albert
> > 
> > Not completely, but I have no objections to this version switch now.
> 
> Do you have an estimated date of when it'd be good for you?
> 
> The proposed 20.12 releases dependency freeze is November 5, i guess we
> could wait until somewhere around late October if it helps you.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert

No. But I can manage any date now. I will switch to Mageia Cauldron if it's 
needed (Cauldron is almost stable now). Thanks.

Best regards,
Yuri