QtWayland 6.7.2 packaging recommendation

Nicolas Fella nicolas.fella at gmx.de
Tue Aug 6 12:07:46 BST 2024


On 09.07.24 11:14, Vlad Zahorodnii wrote:
> Hello,
>
> QtWayland 6.7.2 contains a regression with regards to initializing the
> popup parent, which can result in the plasmashell process getting
> killed in some circumstances (e.g.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489259). The regression has been
> fixed in 6.7.3, but according to the Qt release schedule, 6.7.3 is
> going to be released in about two months.
>
> In meanwhile, could distros that ship the Plasma Wayland session
> include
> https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwayland/-/commit/92bcb8f6b7a852c7a5d662fc34de561692a7a454
> to fix plasmashell crashing until 6.7.3 is finally released?

Hi,

there's more QtWayland patches worth backporting:

-
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwayland/-/commit/406995207eae8d644b6e5262aa716a48c7e471a8

-
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwayland/-/commit/632127d7f1d86cba4dd17361f24f9fd70a0ae44c

These fix a number of crashes we observe.

Cheers

Nico



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