KF 5.37 requiring Qt 5.7

[David Faure]

On mercredi 2 août 2017 22:57:31 CEST Christoph Feck wrote:
> On 02.08.2017 22:47, David Faure wrote:
> > According to the policy that KF5 should work with the last 3 releases of
> > Qt5.x, it is time now for upcoming releases of KF5 to drop support for Qt
> > 5.6.
> > 
> > Packagers: is that acceptable?
> > 
> > Normally I would have just gone ahead with applying the policy, but after
> > my recent finding that even some very recent distributions are still on
> > Qt 5.6 LTS, I just want to make sure.
> > 
> > (On the other hand I guess it's fine in the actual case I know about,
> > given
> > that the OpenSuSE KDE:Frameworks5 repo is based on Qt 5.9)
> 
> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history#Qt_5 the
> 5.7 release is no longer maintained, so we have 5.6, 5.8, and 5.9 (5.5
> is still maintained, but we only support 3 three releases).

The replies so that quite some distros use 5.7, so, independently from what 
TQC says, requiring 5.7 rather than 5.8 seems like a better idea to me.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5