Bug 641860 – QT 5.9.x LTS version bump

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stefan Cristian Brindusa 2017-12-20 23:54:37 UTC]

Bump QT5 to version 5.9.x stable LTS ( right now 5.9.3 )

[Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-21 00:06:14 UTC]

Qt-5.9.3 is in tree already, but stabilisation will happen at a later point.

[Comment 2 Stefan Cristian Brindusa 2017-12-21 03:44:10 UTC]

@Andreas Yes, I have seen that. 

Any specific cause/reason it is not yet considered stable?

[Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-21 08:18:27 UTC]

Well first of all, it hasn't been 30 days, and then 5.9.3 added breaking changes that still require medium to big regressions in rdeps to be fixed. On top of already known regressions with 5.9.

[Comment 4 Stefan Cristian Brindusa 2017-12-21 23:20:16 UTC]

Alright. Are the regressions somewhere publicly available ( logs, portage, toolchain, etc. ) ?

[Comment 5 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-22 10:09:52 UTC]

Well, you *are* already on bugs.gentoo.org, right? ;) Some bugs are known, some are yet to be discovered.

[Comment 6 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-22 10:18:19 UTC]

The root cause is the inclusion of http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=f62768d046528636789f901ac79e2cfa1843a7b7 in Qt-5.9.3, and KDE devs expect this to break the code in many more instances than have been patched so far.

[Comment 7 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2017-12-23 01:14:54 UTC]

We haven't even decided on a target branch to stabilise yet. In the past, our 5.x stabilisation targets have been mostly driven by what revdeps require.

[Comment 8 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2018-01-01 00:09:02 UTC]

We're tracking the next stabilisation candidate in bug #642822.