On 10/5/19 9:42 am, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
With my Debian maintainer hat on: thanks for this. But I also have to say that we (Debian) currently lack certain infrastructure that would allow us to provide semi-official packages, like PPAs. It is normally not to difficult to backport Qt (except form buster to stretch, due to some changes done to allow [cross] building starting from system packages). If Debian had PPA-like infra I would certainly try to get a more or less decent backport around (would break KDE and other stuff though, due to API breakage in private API).
For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri for stretch; they install into /opt rather than replacing the system packages, so you don't have the issues with Qt and other reverse-dependencies. I think the Qt project could supply packages along these lines, rather than trying to replace the system Qt.
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