On Friday 24 May 2024 13:29:41 GMT-3 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
> Details: no user downgrades Qt and therefore has ever needed this. This
> is something that only Qt developers themselves have possibly needed --
> seems to be a historical remnant at this point.
> 
> Concretely, this means that we can make our lives easier; for instance,
> when backporting fixes, we'll allow new symbols to appear in patch
> releases.

This is what prevents the 6.5.5-to-6.6.1 upgrade. So it makes some people's 
lives easier in one way by those people's and our users' more difficult in 
another.

> Does this sound good?

Yes.

For me, there's no such thing as LTS anyway, so I don't care about anything 
6.5 beyond 6.5.3. This policy doesn't affect *me*.

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