Plasma depending on Qt 5.6.1 shortly

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> During today's Plasma meeting, we've decided to go ahead and switch Plasma's
> Qt dependency to 5.6.1 (which is to be released shortly).
>
> That means: if you're building Plasma from git master, you'll have to rebuild
> your Qt from git as well, to the 5.6 branch.
>
> The reason is that we need Qt 5.6 tested against, since we'll depend on that
> in Plasma 5.7. Especially multiscreen handling is fixed in some very relevant
> code pathes ( https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125451/ ) and we've been
> waiting for a long time already to get these fixes out to users. At the same
> time, Qt 5.6.0 brought a huge regression (deadlock in kded5), so that
> particular release cannot be used.
>
> TL;DR: rebuild your Qt, Plasma will depend on latest end of this week.

Should we add the dependency then? The kscreen patch should be in, 5.7
official testing phases will start soon and it's absurd not to jump
in.

Aleix