RFC: Switching to min Qt version 5.14 for KF on December 14th

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi Rafael,

thanks for your quick reply.

Am Montag, 7. Dezember 2020, 06:48:44 CET schrieb Rafael Sadowski:
> On Sun Dec 06, 2020 at 08:32:36PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > On Sunday, 6 December 2020 18:05:19 CET David Faure wrote:
> > > On dimanche 6 décembre 2020 17:39:38 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > >  * MidnightBSD
> > > >  * openBSD
> > > > 
> > > > The BSDs are a bit more unfortunate.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the information, Albert.
> > > 
> > > Apparently this means bumping the requirement to Qt 5.14 would break
> > > OpenBSD.
> 
> Will this Qt bump happen before or after the 5.77 release?

After, the bump to Qt 5.14 is currently proposed to happen Mid-December, so 
would be seen for release consumers first with released KF 5.78 in January 
2021.

For KF 5.77 another bump has just happened to Qt 5.13 (was Qt 5.12 before) as 
per dependency plan updated earlier this year*. Which then triggered this 
discussion whether with what we now see being used around us we should perhaps 
simplify our life (as e.g. there are lots of "#if Qt < 5.14 #else #endif" in 
the code) and go already to Qt 5.14 now.

*https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Policies#Frameworks_Qt_requirements

> Anyway, this is okay for OpenBSD. I'm working on a Qt
> 5.15.1 update (qt5-webengine makes me insane).

Very good (and all the best to recover once done ;) )

BTW, please consider subscribing to our special-purpose mailinglist:
    https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
where such things are discussed with the big consumers of what is released by 
KDE. It is a low volume mailinglist, so should not be a big price to pay for 
being in good loop with upstream as well as your related packaging fellows.

FTR, the email asking about this topic there is
    https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2020-December/000894.html

Cheers
Friedrich