[Buildroot] Qt5 LTS handling [was: package/qt5: bump latest version to 5.12.4]

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >>> So actually, my proposal would be to forego the LTS entirely and just go for
 >>> latest. That does mean that we end up with an unmaintained qt5 in our own LTS
 >>> branch. For example, Qt 5.14 will probably get its last update around June 2020.
 >>> Note that the current situation (LTS vs. Latest choice) would not be a solution
 >>> for that - the Latest would still be in the unmaintained situation, so it would
 >>> in practice not be useable.

 >  Addendum to my earlier statement: in my (admittedly limited) experience, there
 > isn't really much reason to stick to LTS releases. Backward compatibility is
 > generally OK, and regressions can be fixed.

I also don't use Qt, so I know next to nothing about it. With Qt5.6 EOL
(so the GPL2/3 issue no longer applicable) then I'm fine with a single
Qt5 version if that is the general agreement among users.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard