[Development] Changes to Qt offering

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den tis 28 jan. 2020 kl 08:01 skrev Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
>
> Den tis 28 jan. 2020 kl 03:19 skrev Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> >
> > On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2020 14:48:17 PST Alexander Akulich wrote:
> > > I would expect a significant negative effect on the quality of Qt
> > > shipped in Linux distributions and thus negative effect on the
> > > Qt-based applications and Qt reputation.
> >
> > That is debatable since most Linux distributions do not align with the Qt
> > LTSes. Kevin's question of 5.15 support while 6.0 is coming is valid, but for
> > all other LTSes, open source Linux distros seem to choose whichever version
> > was latest at the time they reached feature-freeze.
> >
> > Current versions in:
> > * Debian stable: 5.11.3
> > * Debian oldstable: 5.7.1
> > * Fedora 31: 5.12.5
> > * Fedora 30: 5.12.1
> > * Fedora 29: 5.11.1
> > * Fedora 28: 5.10.1
> > * CentOS 8.1: 5.11.1
> > * openSUSE 15: 5.9.4 (15.1 now has 5.9.7)
> > * openSUSE 42.3: 5.6.2
> > * openSUSE 42.2: 5.6.1
> > * (K)Ubuntu 19.10: 5.12.4
> > * Ubuntu 18.10: 5.11.1
> > * Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: 5.9.5
> > * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: 5.5.1
> > * KDE Neon: 5.13.2
> > * Manjaro 18.1.0: 5.13.0
> >
> > There are a couple of alignments with Qt LTS above but they could be
> > coincidences. openSUSE 15 was released around 6 months after the 5.10.0
> > release (and less than 3 after 5.10.1, which is when they seem to make
> > upgrades) and Ubuntu 18.04 was a month earlier than openSUSE. I thought Fedora
> > 31 was trying to align, but then I went to search for the current version and
> > F32-in-development has already upgraded out of the LTS to 5.13.2.
> >
> > Ubuntu snapshot for 20.04 is on 5.12.6. That seems to me to be the only
> > legitimate, intentional alignment on a Qt LTS. If that's confirmed, it would
> > be the first, after 4 years of having LTS releases.
>
> I think they are intending to try to get Qt 5.14.1 packaged for Ubuntu
> 20.04. At least that's what I've seen from the discussions in
> #ubuntu-qt on freenode. So they will be de-aligning if they get that
> done on time.

Forgot links to back up my claim:

Dec 12: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2019/12/12/%23ubuntu-qt.html
Jan 8: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2020/01/08/%23ubuntu-qt.html

Elvis

>
> Elvis
>
> >
> > So it's completely understandable to have concluded that the LTS releases
> > weren't useful to Linux distributions.
> >
> > --
> > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
> >   Software Architect - Intel System Software Products
> >
> >
> >
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