D22559: Bump min dep versions of Qt & KF to 5.9 & 5.44

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

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  In D22559#498486 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22559#498486>, @aaronpuchert wrote:
  
  > In D22559#498026 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22559#498026>, @kfunk wrote:
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  > > I do not think bumping versions "just because " has any value.
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  > I kind of agree here. Unless we have features that we know are only available with a certain version, we might needlessly restrict how people can build this. They might assume we have a good reason for choosing that specific version and that older versions can't possibly work. When I package stuff for openSUSE, I would never try decreasing minimum versions of dependencies, because I assume that these are actually the minimum. On the other hand, I regularly stumble across software that doesn't specify minimum versions for dependencies, but assumes it's "reasonably recent".
  
  
  I see. As developer, by all the years, I learned that it restricts my  thinking about solutions if considering all the potential places where we one would like to see the software being used, but where it is not currently. Sticking to reality and just discarding those dreams felt like freeing development power usually :)
  
  > It makes sense to test with some version of Qt & KF so that we can guarantee it works there, but that doesn't mean we have to bump the minimum versions in the CMake config. Perhaps a warning might make sense that this isn't tested, but I wouldn't want to error out.
  
  That is an interesting idea, possibly we could do that instead, I like it. Would draft something along this instead in the next weeks, but happy to be beaten by someone doing this earlier.
  
  Given there is no strict need to bump, and given your reponses (thanks for doing) were not all completly pro this, discarding now.

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