CI moved to Qt 6.7 for Linux builds

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 11:22 PM Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>

HI Kai,


>
> (only posting to plasma-devel only below is about Plasma)
>
>  > i'd also like to schedule removing CI support for [...] Plasma/5.27
>
> Plasma 5.27 is our LTS release and we’ve just had Kubuntu 24.04 ship
> with it. I’m also aware of at least one other major deployment that’s
> also on 5.27 for the forseeable time.
>
> I think we need to keep this around for at least another year, maybe
> longer, so we can still backport important fixes and do a few more 5.27
> releases. One year of support isn’t exactly “LTS” imho particularly with
> a major version jump. Think of how long Qt 5.15 has been around and
> still will be in the industry.
>

The problem I see with this is that if you head to
https://invent.kde.org/teams/ci-artifacts/suse-qt5.15/-/packages? you will
find that the Plasma packages were last rebuilt 5-6 months ago by and large.

This doesn't look terribly active to me / something receiving much in the
way of release activity?


>
> Cheers
> Kai Uwe
>
> PS: Though we should probably disable this stupid appstream test on 5.27
>

Yes, that test drives many of us crazy.

Cheers,
Ben
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