[Interest] Qt 5.3 vs Qt 5.4 (etc)

[André Pönitz]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:35 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If this principle was in place for Qt 5.2 too, I can thus upgrade my Linux
> > box's Qt 5.2 (Ubuntu 14.04) to Qt 5.3.2 (backported from Ubuntu Vivid
> > Velvet) without breaking the slew of packages that depend on Qt5?
> >
> 
> Its been in place since Qt3, ABI breakages only occur between major version
> (3->4, 4->5).
> 
> Most Linux distro's wouldn't package Qt if they had to recompile all the
> packages that depend on Qt if they switch from x.y to x.y+1.

Are you saying if distro 'Foo' ships a new version, they won't recompile all
packages?

Andre'