On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 09:38:43PM -0500, kiasoc5 wrote: > 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 KDE) with Qt 5, which is seriously outdated (not maintained any more in the 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. This is something we should probably do anyway. We should also try to keep qtwebengine patched as much as possible, since it is a web engine :) -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted