KF 5.37 requiring Qt 5.7

David Faure faure at kde.org
Mon Aug 7 15:14:16 UTC 2017


On lundi 7 août 2017 16:46:59 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.

Isn't it an option to leave it in, at version 5.36, rather than removing it 
completely ?

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