RFC: Dropping Breeze + Oxygen Qt4 builds after

[Harald Sitter]

+1

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>
> We're starting to see a lot of preparation for Qt6 porting API which
> we know will be deprecated.
>
> One place where this is problematic is Breeze + Oxygen QStyles where
> we currently provide Qt4 builds. I don't want this to hold us back and
> be a problem later. It's also a problem for some shadow cleanup
> happening now (D26475)
>
> I propose that we completely drop the Qt4 builds from Breeze+Oxygen
> after Plasma 5.18.
>
> We're seeing distros phase Qt4 out, even Debian - and if a distro does
> still want to package these, they will still have the option of
> building the Plasma 5.18 tarball for Qt4 even after Plasma moves to a
> new revision.
>
> CC'ing packagers to give them a chance to shout.
>
> David