[Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0]

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 12-02-18 14:37, nimaim wrote:
> This is semi unrelated, but along would this, would it make sense to bump the
> current Qt LTS version from 5.6.x to 5.9.x (currently 5.9.4, which should
> also be bumped from the 5.9.3 currently in the BR repo), and use this 5.10.x
> version as BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST as currently proposed?

 The problem is that 5.6.x is the last version that still was LGPL-2.0. For some
companies this could be a problem.

 That said, I'm not particularly in favour of keeping old, unmaintained and
probably vulnerable versions of packages just for companies' irrational fears of
3.0. It is clear from all the conditions we currently have that such maintenance
does not come for free...

 So, any objections to replace Qt 5.6 with Qt 5.9?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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