[lubuntu-devel] Policy RFC - content of Backports repository

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 8:52 PM Simon Quigley <simon at tsimonq2.net> wrote:
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> Dear Lubuntu Team,
>
> I'm looking for some opinions on what exactly backports should contain
> long-term. I believe we should only provide support for the LTS release,
> but should we update any KDE Frameworks or Qt libraries to fix some more
> general bugs? I'm not in favor of fully providing e.g. KDE Gear or
> Plasma, but we could probably grab the Frameworks builds from Kubuntu
> Backports.
>
> Thoughts?
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Given the fact that there are multiple LXQt bugs that are actually Qt
bugs, I think it's a very good idea to update Qt at least. We will
probably need to wait until LXQt has official support for Qt6, though.
As for Frameworks, I'm not sure what that's used for, so I don't have
a comment on that.