[Slackbuilds-users] qt5 is sorely in need of an update

[Larry Hajali]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:03 AM B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/3/18, orbea at fredslev.dk <orbea at fredslev.dk> wrote:
> >
> > When programs I use will soon no longer support releases older than
> > 5.9 I can not complain to them that it will no longer build in
> > Slackware because by all means we should of updated literally years
> > ago...
>
> You (or whoever) could submit a qt59 or qt5-new or something like that,
> and the stuff that requires qt 5.9 or newer could list that as a dep.
>
> That, or if the old qt5 maintainer's OK with the change, rename the
> existing qt5 to qt5-legacy and someone can submit a new qt5 build and
> keep it up to date. Anything that won't build with the new qt5 has the
> dep changed to qt5-legacy (more work that the previous option).
>
> Is the problem just that the maintainer's gone missing, or is he answering
> emails and giving out a reason why he won't update the build?
>
I'm here and I did respond if you look at this email chain.

Issue is that newer PyQt5 versions rely on a newer version of sip that
comes with Slackware 14.2.  Last I remember someone was going to look at
packaging a newer sip pacakge that can either replace or run alongside the
stock sip package in Slackware 14.2.  I don't have time to investigate this.

If the ultimate goal is to have a new version of qt5, than someone can
create a package called qt59 or whatever to satisfy a dependency.  If
someone does take over qt5 and upgrade then it would be up to them to make
sure the dependencies work after the update.  Upgrading a package like qt5
is a big ask as it is a big package itself to compile and there are
multiple dependencies to test.

--Larry
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