HEADS UP: KDE/Qt update intentions in Fedora 13 (RFC)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:24:30 +0300
Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> wrote:

> On 10/20/2010 03:02 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > The question is (we agreed on KDE SIG meeting yesterday) - should we
> > update Qt to 4.7 too or build KDE stack with current 4.6 series? As
> > there are a few Qt packages outside of KDE SIG/Qt maintainers scope,
> > we'd like to hear any objections against update - bugs we can fix
> > etc. Qt 4.7 is quite well tested, thanks to work on Fedora 14 (Qt
> > 4.7 is already included) and a lot of users are actually using this
> > combination in Fedora 13.
> 
> KDE is pretty much self contained, whereas a Qt upgrade affects a much
> larger number of packages. I don't think updating Qt to a new major
> version in a stable Fedora release is a good idea; it just causes too
> much churn.

...snip... 

I agree with Kalev here. Qt upgrade in a stable release is to be
avoided unless there's some severe bug or security issue that can't be
backported. 

kevin
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