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KDE qt patch collection

Asked by Usarin Heininga

Why aren't the sources at http://invent.kde.org/qt used for building Ubuntu qt packages?
They have a lot of qt verified fixes in there.
Some of those fixes are really necessary to have a good plasma Wayland experience. Since this year is going to be a transition year to Wayland for KDE it would be recommended to use these sources for the impish release.

Regards,

Usarin Heininga

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Impish is not stable and not ready so the things in Impish may change wildly between now and it's release in October (some 4 months away).

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Usarin Heininga (usarinheininga) said (last edit ): 		#2

It will most likely not change, otherwise they would be using it by now to test things and see which bugs could be removed.
Hirsute is not using it as well, while the patch collection started in february.

Thanks for your anwser.

Regards,

Usarin Heininga

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Usarin Heininga (usarinheininga) said (last edit ): 		#3
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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

I do not really understand:
Why does KDE build their own codebase and patch-set for QT instead of getting the patches applied upstream https://www.qt.io/ ?
This would serve everyone using QT and not only those who do it via KDE.

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Usarin Heininga (usarinheininga) said (last edit ): 		#5

Because 5.15 is the last release in the 5.x series for non commercial users.
Payed customers can download later releases.
KDE decided to maintain their own tree. A lot of bug fixes are back ported from the 6.x tree.
Any new patch in the KDE tree has to be accepted by QT first, so the quality is ok.
It's explained in detail here https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection .
Distro's like SUSE, Arch, Neon and Manjaro already switched.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

Ubuntu is copying the qt packages from Debian (eventually adding minor modifications). So I assume that you better discuss this with Debian. I expect Ubuntu to follow any decision taken by Debian but not to switch on their own.

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