Am Di., 28. Jan. 2020 um 01:43 Uhr schrieb Peter Wu <pe...@lekensteyn.nl>:
> > > I think it is worth emphasizing that it only affects users who build or > develop Wireshark from source. The final Wireshark installer will still > bundle the Qt bits. > We need to get those bundles from somewhere, meaning we either rely on 3rd-party packages or compile ourselves. This is a change from the current situation where we use the official LTS versions. > The main problem I see is it basically forces us to use the latest Qt > version which makes supporting older Linux distributions somewhat > harder. Based on the Qt version history [1], it looks like non-LTS > versions are supported for 1 year. Typical Linux distributions have a > longer lifetime. > > This is not different from now. We still would support a minimum version, although shipping with a later one. > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history#Qt_5 > > The Qt project is still committed to providing security updates, so that > should not change the situation for Linux distribution maintainers. > Debian for example typically does not update the Qt version even though > there may be dozens of usability bug fixes. > > It changes considerably, as the LTS versions (and code-branches) will no longer be available. As said above, we would have to maintain our own version of Qt if needed > The LTS branch is not just 'no longer easily accessible', it will simply > be unavailable for non-commercial users. The Qt company wants OSS > developers like us to use the latest version and report back issues and > such. Which I already did in the past, including patches... > Which results in us having an issue with packaging.
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