required KF5 version

[Sandro Knauß]

Hi,

> I've seen that just recently the required KF5 version was updated in the
> cmake files, e.g. in kaddressbook
> -set(KF5_VERSION "5.39.0")
> +set(KF5_VERSION "5.41.0")
> 
> My question: is this really needed ?
> I mean, are there really new APIs which are now used or is this done just
> because the KF5 libs already provide a newer version ?

Normally it is not needed. The background is, that people in the pim team say: 
"Only the newest Frameworks is tested together with pim. So only this 
combination of Frameworks and pim is tested so we should reflected that and 
bump the frameworks deps." 

I can understand, that there is not enough manpower to test against each 
Framework release. But we could make the automatic bumps not that aggressive. 
Aka have a timespan of at least allowed 2-3 Framework releases. That would 
make it much more easy to built/test kdepim on actual distributions.

> I'm asking since I'm compiling PIM master on openSuse and it always takes
> some time until the KF5 rpm packages have been updated to the latest
> version, and until this I need to compile all KF5 libs on my own, which is
> a hassle.

The situation for Debian is the same. That's why I can't build kdepim master 
anymore on Debian, because a new Framework release takes at least one week to 
enter Debian unstable...

sandro
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