D16495: Bump min dep versions of Qt & KF to 5.9 & 5.44

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

kossebau added a comment.


  In D16495#359725 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D16495#359725>, @kfunk wrote:
  
  > Disclaimer: I'm pretty conservative when it comes to bumping version requirements of dependent packages. So far we don't get a lot by bumping the versions, quite the contrary we rather lose (potential, I know, but still) contributors b/c they cannot build KDevelop on their current OS.
  
  
  Personally i fancy not supporting old versions, as it means less chance for bugs only found in older versions ;) Thus less support issues. And getting rid of if-version variants in the code also makes me feel better :) But well, hope dies last, so perhaps one day there really will be new KDevelop contributors who are otherwise stuck on very conservatively upgraded systems...  ;)
  
  > Keeping at least Debian Stable in the loop would make sense to me, so: Qt 5.7 and KF 5.28? We'd only lose Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (another big "market"), which is probably negligible as there's a new LTS out now.
  
  I would be already a bit happy with this, would allow at least some code variants to kill (and Qt 5.7 gives us native qAsConst + QOverload).
  Still not enough to build current Qml/JS support, but then potential Qml users would be rather using newer Qt versions on their machine anyway, so no issues for them.
  
  @kfunk Would you be able to update your CI to use Debian Stable, so we have at least those minimal deps covered by some automated testing?

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