Re: Qt 5.9 long-term support release and Anki

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:49:06AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Hi Julian!
> 
> El mié., 1 de ago. de 2018 10:09, Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> escribió:
> 
>   Hello there,
> 
>   I'm the maintainer for Anki, which is soon to release version 2.1.0.
>   It depends on Qt5, but they have decided to depend specifically on
>   version 5.9.x, because that is a long-term support release of Qt.
>   (See the start of http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/whatsnew59.html for example.)
> 
>   Debian doesn't support 5.9 any longer, so do you have any suggestions?
> 
> Yes: don't worry at all. Qt is backwards compatible, so if upstream builds and
> runs against 5.9 it will continue doing do with any later version *except* they
> are using a bug as a feature, which would be a strange case.
> But basically: relax and enjoy using Qt on Debian :-)
> Cheers!

Thanks!

I'll just have to remove the check, then, and warn people that they
are using it "at their own risk" ;-)

Best wishes,

   Julian