Re: Increasing Qt dependency in master

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:28 AM Igor Kushnir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2020-10-26 12:09, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Montag, 26. Oktober 2020 09:30:30 CET Igor Kushnir wrote:
> >> If we do make the leap to 5.12, I'd like it to be straight to 5.12.1
> >> rather than 5.12.0 to ease porting from QRegExp::Wildcard to
> >> QRegularExpression::wildcardToRegularExpression(). The behavior of this
> >> function was changed in Qt 5.12.1 as it started anchoring its return
> >> value to fix QTBUG-72539.
> > Personally I'm fine with that.
> >
> > What distros would we lose by this move?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> By requiring 5.12.0 we'd lose Debian stable [buster], old Ubuntu LTS
> [18.04] and old OpenSUSE Leap [15.1]. By requiring 5.12.1 we'd not lose
> any extra popular distro version in addition to these 3 releases, I think.
>
> Igor
>

+1 on changing to 5.12.

@Igor: We generally never depend on specific minor versions. In fact,
I'd expect any maintained distribution to be shipping the last minor
release, if they don't they're doing a big disservice to their users.

Aleix