Qt 5.6.2

[Rik Mills]

I would guess that the majority of bugfixes have already been backported
to the Qt 5.6.1 builds in the stable phone overlay ppa?

https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay

It is quite some time since the original Qt 5.6.1 xenial-overbuilds we
used in backports were copied over from their landing ppa, so I think
Timo et al. have been quietly and industriously patching Qt bugs in that
ppa since.

For example, the timezone data fix you mentioned in IRC by Marcin:

https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay/+sourcepub/6883405/+listing-archive-extra

Should these builds be ready to go, safe to update our backports ppa
without the need for full scale rebuilds, I would favour this option
over a wholesale Qt update.

Rik

On 13/12/16 02:39, Simon Quigley wrote:
> While we are waiting for Qt 5.7.1 to be released, *after we get
> everything migrated into backports*, would it be a good idea to do a
> migration from Qt 5.6.1 to 5.6.2 in Backports Landing, rebuild
> everything, and push it to Backports?
> 
> Reason being, it's a bugfix release that could be useful in fixing some
> bugs while we wait for Qt 5.7.1. In order to get 5.7.1 in Backports, it
> should at least be in the Ubuntu development release archive (release
> pocket, not proposed) before we put it in Backports, and that will take
> a few months, so in the meantime, why not provide bugfixes?
> 
> Thoughts?
>