[Development] Exception to source compatibility: adding AA_CompressHighFrequencyEvents flag

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 April 2016 08:50:48 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> [snip]
>> 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).
>
> The only Qt patches we accept are the ones ACKed by upstream (ie, someone from
> the Qt project) or the ones that are really debian-specific. Projects using Qt
> should use whatever the official Qt releases ship.
>
> So backporting a merged fix is OK, but a patch to alter standard Qt behavior
> not yet accepted is not ok.

Well, deciding upon your policy is certainly your prerogative.

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