Apologies, Mattia. Autocorrect! 

> On 12 Nov 2020, at 18:08, Craig Bradney <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Maria
> 
> No sorry, we’re firmly in Qt 514 territory now. We need to keep moving 
> forward and Ubuntu needs to move forward too. There are no risks or troubles. 
> Ubuntu is just behind and should have already been on a later version of Qt 
> sooner. Even 20.10 doesn’t have 5.15 which is just poor. We’d have moved to 
> 5.15 if it wasn’t for 20.10. Users of Scribus should be advised to move to 
> 20.10.
> 
> Sorry!
> 
> Craig
> 
>> On 12 Nov 2020, at 17:38, Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed that the required Qt version was bumped to 5.14, from 5.11,
>> right after the 1.5.6 release.
>> https://www.scribus.net/websvn/comp.php?repname=Scribus&compare[]=%2F@24200&compare[]=%2F@24201
>> 
>> On IRC a-l-e told me that this was done to avoid some "warnings", but
>> clearly I imagine there are also some other features that are keen on
>> using as well.
>> 
>> However, I'd like to ask if you could stick to Qt 5.12, which is the
>> version available in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.  There are plenty of people
>> asking for an updated scribus on Ubuntu 20.04, but requiring a newer Qt
>> brings all kinds of risks and troubles¹.
>> 
>> Thanks for your understanding!
>> Mattia
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ¹ I'd either need to import a newer Qt into the PPA, and therefore
>> having people install those libraries as well, surely leading to some
>> kind of conflict, or figure a way to statically link scribus against Qt
>> (is that even possible with the current build system?).  Either way,
>> they both carry their own risk from my POV.
>> 
>> -- 
>> regards,
>>                       Mattia Rizzolo
>> 
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