[neon] qt 5.6.0 usedition testing

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Mon May 2 15:26:52 UTC 2016


This includes patches to itigate the problem in the 5.6 release

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 08:29:41PM +0530, Vishal Rao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Did I see a comment by Riddell when the Neon user tech preview was announced
> that "Qt 5.6 breaks Plasma", and if I'm not mistaken, what was the issue and
> has it been resolved?
> 
> Cheers,
> Vishal
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> 
>     ahoy
> 
>     We are currently looking at integrating Qt 5.6.0 as Qt 5.6.1's release
>     was pushed into later this month. Before we land it by default we'd
>     like to do some testing. If you are using the user edition tech
>     preview you can add a testing repository and do an update to get Qt
>     5.6.0 and a bunch of Plasma updates. Beware that this might entirely
>     break your system, so only do this if you are comfortable with
>     potentially repairing the system by hand or have nothing much to lose.
> 
>     sudo add-apt-repository http://archive.neon.kde.org/tmp/testing
>     sudo apt update
>     sudo apt dist-upgrade
> 
>     If you are using one of the developer editions you will probably get
>     Qt 5.6.0 as an update some time this week, once we are confident it
>     won't break everything and the kitchen sink.
> 
>     HS
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