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

Fabian Vogt fabian at ritter-vogt.de
Sun Sep 10 10:48:25 BST 2023


Hi,

Am Sonntag, 10. September 2023, 01:18:33 CEST schrieb Fusion Future:
> 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.

Looks like this lib is already installed by qtbase, so WFM.

> 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 
> 
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