Read this if your package BuildRequires qt(4)-devel!!!

[Till Maas]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > for all maintainers of packages which BuildRequire qt4-devel (or qt-devel,
> > but the versioned virtual Provides is preferred): please, when you plan to
> > push updates for your packages, ALWAYS CHECK what version of Qt your
> > package got built against and DO NOT PUSH your update to stable before
> > that version of Qt goes stable! A package built against Qt 4.6 WILL NOT
> > WORK AT ALL with Qt 4.5!!! (This is always the case, Qt is backwards- but
> > not forwards- compatible.)
> 
> FYI, while the above is still sane advice (it's always a good idea to verify 
> that you aren't building against a newer Qt from a buildroot override!), Qt 
> 4.6.2 is now queued for the stable updates (it was decided in today's KDE 
> SIG meeting to push the big Qt 4.6.2 / KDE 4.4.0 / SIP 4.10 update set out), 
> so this particular version bump should no longer be a source of trouble.

Now that I know the command to do this, here it is:

$ koji latest-pkg dist-f12-build qt | grep override

If this returns something, the package must only be moved to stable
together with the big qt update.

Regards
Till
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