[Interest] Qt WebEngine 5.15.3 tag

[Tuukka Turunen]

Hi,

I do understand the desire to have a supported / tagged release of QWE and it is possible that it might even work quite well on an earlier release of Qt. However, we are testing it in conjunction with the other changes of a new patch level release and do not want to give a guarantee that new releases of QWE would always work with earlier releases of other modules. Tagging a release would give such indication.

What would be a good way forward (other that testing each new QWE version to work on Qt 5.15.2)?

Yours,

Tuukka

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Lähettäjä: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> käyttäjän Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> puolesta
Lähetetty: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:53:52 PM
Vastaanottaja: Benjamin TERRIER <b.terrier at gmail.com>
Kopio: Qt Interest <interest at qt-project.org>
Aihe: Re: [Interest] Qt WebEngine 5.15.3 tag

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 06:37:35PM +0100, Benjamin TERRIER wrote:
> I am pretty sure that Linux distros which have Qt 5.15 would be interested
> in upgrading their Qt WebEngine to 5.15.3+

They can - Gentoo did even before the release, Archlinux did after I
asked them to do so and convinced them it's not an accident that no tag
exists for it (can't blame them, like I said, it's bizarre).

But other Linux package maintainers might not even notice or know a new
release is out (which I suspect is TQtC's aim here - keep in mind,
QtWebEngine is probably only still public because the LGPL enforces
that, apparently the people in charge of those decisions don't care
about the involved serious security bugs much...).

A dangerous and unethical game to play, even more so when considering
that pushing a git tag is zero effort and the change file already was
written...

Florian

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