Kevin Kofler wrote: > The new xkbcommon requirement is also an issue for us in Fedora. The new > xkbcommon 0.7.0 is only available in Rawhide and it is doubtful that it > will ever be backported to Fedora 25 or 24. So, if we cannot get > libxkbcommon updated, we will either be unable to provide your new Plasma > releases for our stable releases, or we will be forced to add a patch to > revert your dependency bump, as we already had to do for Qt in the past: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qt5-qtbase.git/tree/qtbase-opensource-src-5.3.2-old_xkbcommon.patch?id=e26fd4ffda851bfe13d975547e218e16f72ce556 > (Yes, this reintroduced a bug. It was just not possible to fix that bug > with the xkbcommon that was available in the Fedora 19 release. Fedora 20 > eventually got the xkbcommon update, so we were able to drop this patch > there. We still had to patch Qt for the old xcb-xkb (which could not be > updated due to a soname bump) though.)
For the record, xkbcommon was updated to 0.7.1 in Fedora 25 as a response to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414493 , so this particular dependency is no longer an issue for this particular Fedora release. Kevin Kofler
