Digikam 5.6 on ppa?

[NeiNei]

Dear Phil,

by chance, I found today in the Kubuntu backport ppa some evidence on 
DigiKam 5.6 for Xenial:

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports?field.series_filter=xenial

So I don't know whether it would be helpful or advisable to add the ppa 
to the software sources of the distro if it is not already there by default.

Best,
NeiNei

On 06.07.2017 21:11, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> Official xenial packeges will not likely get any updates like that of QT.
>
> What one could hope for is that there is an other reliable PPA with at
> least QT 5.6 for xenial that could be used as source for a special build
> of digikam with/for that. The kubuntu team have done backports like that
> before on their PPA but it mostly depends on if they need to update QT
> to build new versions of KDE. If they would do it then I could use it
> for digikam (as I have done in the past).
>
> /Philip
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2017 14:30, "NeiNei" <neinei at gmx.net <mailto:neinei at gmx.net>>
> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Philip für the further explanations.
>     So do you think that there will be any chance that at least QT 5.6
>     will enter Xenial LTS any time in the near future? Or would it be
>     more advisable to change the distro for example from Linux Mint KDE
>     to Linux KDE Neon in order to be  "on the safe side" with future
>     releases of DigiKam?
>     Thanks in advance for your comments,
>     NeiNei
>
>     On 06.07.2017 12:15, Peter Mc Donough wrote:
>
>         Am 05.07.2017 um 22:19 schrieb Philip Johnsson:
>
>             You need a reliable source of at least QT 5.6 for Ubuntu
>             Xenial to build
>             Digikam 5.6. Ubuntu Xenial use QT 5.5.1.
>
>
>         Thanks,
>         Peter
>
>