> unfortunately I am not optimistic that soon for Qt, sbo will run a sane >>> version politic, >>> The current maintainer showed more or less that he/she does not care to >>> much and/or does not understand why a LTS version strategy is the right >>> thing for a distribution like Slackware. >>> >> All I'll say about this is that the above is a bogus statement!
> That will have to be decided by qt5 maintainer (Larry) >> My suggestion (suppose we bump to 5.9) is to place them on -review >> branch first and see if other scripts are working fine with it. If it >> turns out to be OK, we can then merge it into master and 14.2. >> > I don't plan on upgrading Qt5 past the 5.7.X branch for Slackware 14.2. I like to keep PyQt5 around the same version as Qt5. Unfortunately, PyQt5 5.7.1 requires sip 4.19 or above. I can look at upgrading for -current but I don't see it happening for 14.2. > based on rough count, we have more than 60 other scripts depending on >> qt5 for hard dep and probably more with optional dep. That will take >> some time to test. >> > This is true. It takes a while to go through all the builds that depend on Qt5. --Larry
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