Is it acceptable for distros to add a new required dependency in kwin 5.27.9?

[Neal Gompa]

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 7:26 PM Fusion Future <qydwhotmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear distros:
>
> In order to fix https://bugs.kde.org/472643 I'd like to add a new
> required dependency Qt5LinuxAccessibilitySupport to kwin 5.27.9[2] which
> is expected to be released on Tue 2023-10-24. The source of the library
> is from qtbase[3], but the library is not part of Qt5GuiPrivate until
> Qt6.  It is not added yet because it's important to know if it's
> acceptable for distros to introduce the new dependency in a bugfix release.
>
> Looking forward to your opinion. Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Ref:
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/472643
>
> [2] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4393
>
> [3]
> https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/blob/kde/5.15/src/platformsupport/linuxaccessibility/linuxaccessibility.pro
>

I don't have a problem with it from a Fedora/CentOS/RHEL perspective.
It's not *really* a new dependency since it's already part of the
qtbase bundle.



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