[QGIS-Developer] How to handle upstream Qt fixes

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 02:19, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Nyall,
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> We discussed this topic in today's PSC meeting and we have an answer about the question if we can invest money for KDAB help in fixing Qt 5 bugs.
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> The answer is yes, even if the patches are against an officially unsupported Qt 5 version, if you want to contact them please go ahead.
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> For windows we can apply the patches ourselves, for debian & friends there is a good chance the KDE patches + any other patch that fixes critical bugs will be applied anyway.

Great, thanks for the update Alessandro!

I've emailed KDAB to see if they are able to undertake this work. I'll
report back here with developments.

Nyall