On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:49:06AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi Julian! > > El mié., 1 de ago. de 2018 10:09, Julian Gilbey <jul...@d-and-j.net> escribió: > > Hello there, > > I'm the maintainer for Anki, which is soon to release version 2.1.0. > It depends on Qt5, but they have decided to depend specifically on > version 5.9.x, because that is a long-term support release of Qt. > (See the start of http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/whatsnew59.html for example.) > > Debian doesn't support 5.9 any longer, so do you have any suggestions? > > Yes: don't worry at all. Qt is backwards compatible, so if upstream builds and > runs against 5.9 it will continue doing do with any later version *except* > they > are using a bug as a feature, which would be a strange case. > But basically: relax and enjoy using Qt on Debian :-) > Cheers!
Thanks! I'll just have to remove the check, then, and warn people that they are using it "at their own risk" ;-) Best wishes, Julian
