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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 30434C516 X-Spam-Score: -10.20 X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -10.20 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-TUID: LwodsXw5LsXS On 2/26/23 18:43, Philip McGrath wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday, February 26, 2023 7:44:20 AM EST Andreas Enge wrote: >> >> In any case, I realised that we are still compiling most packages (including >> KDE) with Qt 5, which is seriously outdated (not maintained any more in the >> free version since May 2021). Qt 6.3 support will end in April 2023, that >> of the current version Qt 6.4 in September 2023. So we have the work carved >> out for a (yet to be created) Qt/KDE team. >> > > Note that KDE maintains a patch collection for Qt 5.15: > https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection > > There was an announcement here: > https://dot.kde.org/2021/04/06/announcing-kdes-qt-5-patch-collection > > Patches are exclusively backports of bugfixes that have already been committed > to upstream Qt 6, except that patches for Qt 5.15 components removed in Qt 6 > are also accepted. The patches are curated by a small group of KDE developers > who also have commit privileges in the upstream Qt Project (as distinct from > the Qt Company). > > I think out Qt 5 packages should be based on the KDE patch collection. > > The patches are maintained in Git repositories with the same structure as > upstream Qt. They could be extracted with `git format-patch v5.15.3-lts- > lgpl..origin/kde/5.15` and added to "gnu/packages/patches/", or we could just > change the origins for Qt 5 to point to KDE's repositories, e.g. this one for > qt-base: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/tree/kde/5.15 The KDE patchset moves quickly and does not have tagged releases. If that proves difficult we could also just bump the QT5 version to 5.15.8, which is freely available.