KF 5.37 requiring Qt 5.7

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Aug 7 14:46:59 UTC 2017


David Faure wrote:

> On mercredi 2 août 2017 22:55:10 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>> I'd prefer to continue to allow 5.6 awhile, to continue to allow support
>> for rhel 7.
> 
> That's curious, how do you package the parts of KDE Applications or
> Workspace that already require Qt 5.7 ?

I haven't packaged those pieces yet.

Sounds like you may have moved forward anyway, so I guess I'll have to start 
the process of removing KF5 from the EPEL addon repository for rhel7.  I 
shame, I and a few others did a fair amount of work to get that in.

-- Rex



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