[Development] Exception to source compatibility: adding AA_CompressHighFrequencyEvents flag

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

> Please correct me if I'm wrong: the feature which will break API was added in
> 5.6.0, and we can say that most of the people out there are not using it.
>
> Ideally API/ABI should not be broken without a SONAME change. If I had some
> Qt5 app using it already I would be forced to do a hack in our packaging:
> faking a SONAME change.
>
> Now it just happens that we in Debian haven't pushed 5.6 to unstable yet (we
> are waiting for 5.6.1) so it's not a problem for us now. It will be if pushed
> with 5.6.2 instead of 5.6.1.
>
> Of course I'm only speaking for us Debian, I don't know the impact on other
> distros.

As a Debian developer, you might also consider that you should never
ever package Krita 3 for Debian with a Qt 5.6 without this fix. You'd have
to carry the patch for Qt 5.6 or forego packaging Krita (and later on,
OpenToonz).

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org