Qt5PatchCollection versions (broken QWE)

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 7:39 PM Antonio Rojas <nqn1976list at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> El miércoles, 26 de mayo de 2021 13:19:34 (CEST), Harald Sitter escribió:
> > Hola
> >
> > QWE and QtScript in our kde/5.15 branches currently have unaligned versions.
> >
> > QWE 5.15.4:
> > https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwebengine/-/blob/kde/5.15/.qmake.conf
> >
> > QtBase 5.15.3:
> > https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/blob/kde/5.15/.qmake.conf
> >
> > This then breaks version alignment expectations. For example QWECore
> > requires QtWebChannel at the same version but since the versions are
> > misaligned the requirement check changes.
>
> This is because the upstream QWE and QtScripts 5.15 branches are public,
> unlike the other Qt repos. The versioning issue is discussed here:
>
> https://www.qt.io/blog/building-qt-webengine-against-other-qt-versions
>
> Lowering the version number would be misleading since this is the real,
> upstream 5.15 code, which is post-5.15.4 already.

I suppose then we need to fix the cmake check?

Right now building the lot of our patch collection branches leads to
skrooge not being able to build because of that defect. That seems
silly at the best of times.

HS