Hi Danny!

El vie., 21 de sep. de 2018 10:28, Danny Smit <danny.smi...@gmail.com>
escribió:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running into two (old) Qt bugs on Debian 9.5. Preferably I'd like
> to see them fixed upstream, so that the whole world can benefit from
> the changes, instead of
> applying patches locally. I'm willing to send pull requests of needed.
>
> I noticed by default Debian uses Qt 5.7, which isn't an LTS Qt version
> and not supported by Qt itself anymore. Will the Debian community
> (itself) do backports for this version?


We tried, we seem to lack manpower. Note that the bug fixes must comply
with stable's update rules.


Can I submit (pull) requests
> in order to get bugfixes backported to the Qt that is provided by
> Debian?


Sure thing!!!


And is likely that my request for such backports will even get
> accepted?


If the commits are ok and it fulfills the stable release team criteria, is
just a matter of any of us uploading it.


It currently concerns the following two issues:
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-37641 (not yet fixed, I'm also
> trying to get it fixed upstream)
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-48344 (fixed in Qt 5.11)
>
> Also, please let me know if there is a better mailing list to ask the
> question.
>

This should be just fine.

>

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