Fwd: Qt 5.4 update (and call for testing), January 25

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> AFAIK we are more than OK, we *want* Qt 5.4 since upstream says it contains
> important bug fixes for Plasma 5.2
>
> On 26 Jan 2015 01:30, "Scott Kitterman" <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>>
>> FYI.  Are we OK with 5.4?
>>
>> Scott K
>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>
>> Subject: Qt 5.4 update (and call for testing), January 25
>> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015, 20:55:51
>> From: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com>
>> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>> Dear Ubuntuers,
>>
>> Today we have reached a point when our Qt 5.4 packages are finally
>> built on all architectures — so I decided to post a quick update
>> on the current Qt 5.4 status.
>>
>> Disclaimer: we are still far from “ready for being uploaded to
>> vivid archive” state. That will happen only when Qt 5.4.1 packages
>> are ready and all blocking bugs are fixed.
>>
>> Recent progress
>> ===============
>>
>> * All the initial Qt 5.4 packaging was done by Timo Jyrinki.
>> * qtwebsockets tests failure has been fixed, thanks to Helge Deller.
>> * stellarium and qtserialport build failures have been fixed, thanks
>>   to Łukasz Zemczak.
>> * some touch-related packages have been rebuilt against Qt 5.4
>>   (Dmitry Shachnev, Łukasz Zemczak).
>> * some Qt packages have been synced/merged from Debian experimental
>>   (Dmitry Shachnev).
>>
>> Known bugs
>> ==========
>>
>> The full list of Qt 5.4 bugs is available at
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=qt5.4>.
>>
>> The most important bugs are:
>>
>> * qtbase tests failures
>> * ubuntu-ui-toolkit tests failures
>> * unity8 behaviour bugs
>>
>> Help with dealing with all these bugs is always welcome.
>>
>> Updating to Qt 5.4
>> ==================
>>
>> The Qt 5.4 packages are available in ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-005.
>> These packages are unstable and may break your system.
>>
>> That PPA is regularly synced with archive, so that all packages there
>> are re-built against Qt 5.4.
>>
>> Upgrade instructions for both mobile devices and desktop are available at
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting>.
>>
>> Please test these packages and report any bugs you find (tagged with
>> ‘qt5.4’ tag).
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Shachnev
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
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+1

Aleix