Can Plasma 5.9 depend on Qt 5.7

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016, 12:39:17 CEST schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> Am 2016-10-27 11:40, schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2016, 08:16:26 CEST schrieb Martin Graesslin:
> >> the Plasma team would like to depend on Qt 5.7 for the next Plasma
> >> release
> >> (5.9). Reasons are among others, that we would like to use:
> >> * appmenu support
> >> * QtVirtualKeyboard support
> >> * QtQuickControls 2
> >> 
> >> Which are all new in Qt 5.7.
> >> 
> >> We would like to know whether that would cause a problem for any
> >> distribution. Please remember that Plasma 5.8 is an LTS and will stay
> >> on Qt
> >> 5.6.
> > 
> > From Lisandro of the Debian Qt/KDE team I received the following
> > answer:
> > 
> > "we are working to have 5.7.1 into unstable soon, but we are on a tight
> > schedule."
> > 
> > So it *might* be that Debian 9 aka Stretch ships with Qt 5.7.
> 
> I would recommend to Debian to keep to Qt 5.6 which is the LTS version.
> Qt 5.6 will be maintained over (most of?) the life time of Debian 9. Qt
> 5.7 will be out of support pretty soon.

I forwarded your suggestion to debian-qt-kde mailing list.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin