Re: State of QT 5.6.x

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

On Montag, 13. Juni 2016 16:02:30 CEST newbeewan@nativobject.net wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I have seen qt 5.6.1 is officially out, correcting tons of bug in 5.6
> series...
> 
> What is the state of QT 5.6.1 in experimental ?

Last time I tried it was not yet installable. But now there is no experimental 
version of libqt5gui5 anymore and more and more parts are coming to unstable.

I usually tried

apt/aptitude install -t experimental libqt5gui5:amd64

and checked *carefully* for what gets removed. As it was about almost all of 
KDE I canceled the operation of course. Also aptitude didn´t have any better 
suggestions.

> Is it possible to test as QT 5.5 replacement ?

Please have a bit more patience. It seems Lisandro and other packagers started 
uploads for Qt 5.6.1 related packages to Debian Unstable. Thats in line with 
what I read on IRC. Starting with Monday Lisandro planned to upload Qt 5.6.1 
packages to unstable.

You can see this easily by monitoring debian-qt-kde and in less detail but for 
all packages in debian-devel-changes mailinglists. And #debian-qt-kde channel.

Again, and again and again: Debian Sid/Experimental is no Debian Stable. So 
please have patience. If packagers also answer every "Is it ready yet?" 
question, then it takes even longer. So please let them do their work and 
monitor debian-qt-kde  mailing list and/or IRC channel yourself in case you 
want to know the latest progress.

Anyway, I can mail around once my system is safely on Qt 5.6.1.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin