[Interest] Updated Debian packages or ppa for Qt 5.9+

[Hamish Moffatt]

Does anyone know of a repository for updated Qt packages for Debian
stable (stretch / 9)?

I thought I remembered reading of one on this list not too long ago, but
I checked the archives and can't find it now.


Debian 9 has only Qt 5.7. I'd like to get on 5.9 at least, and I would
prefer to have deb packages rather than using the installer or building
my own from source.


Thanks

Hamish

[Konstantin Shegunov]

Post by Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone know of a repository for updated Qt packages for Debian
stable (stretch / 9)?

Pin debian testing repos with a low priority in the apt configuration and
you can get the binaries from there. Current it 5.11.2.

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi Konstantin!

El miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2018 05:12:28 -03 Konstantin Shegunov

Post by Konstantin Shegunov

Post by Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone know of a repository for updated Qt packages for Debian
stable (stretch / 9)?

With my Debian Qt maintainer hat on: I'm afraid there is no official repo for
that. I once tried to provide backports but that would mean that many packages
would need to get rebuilt against the new Qt version, which seems not possible
to do on Debian backports.

Backporting Qt 5.10/11 to stable also requires a new dpkg due to the changes
we did in order to be able to cross compile using plain Debian packages +
multi arch.

With my personal hat on: I would *love* to provide a PPA-like semi-official
repo for this, but Debian currently lacks PPAs/bikesheds in order to do that,
and my build power is limited t a 10 years old machine, so not for now. But
yes, I do get lots of requests for this :-(

Post by Konstantin Shegunov
Pin debian testing repos with a low priority in the apt configuration and
you can get the binaries from there. Current it 5.11.2.

Only if you really know what you are doing. If you use KDE stuff (kwin for
example) you will certainly have to upgrade it, and thus half your system,
because it uses Qt's private methods.

Cheers, Lisandro.

[Konstantin Shegunov]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23 AM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <

Post by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer

Post by Konstantin Shegunov
Pin debian testing repos with a low priority in the apt configuration and
you can get the binaries from there. Current it 5.11.2.

Only if you really know what you are doing. If you use KDE stuff (kwin for
example) you will certainly have to upgrade it, and thus half your system,
because it uses Qt's private methods.

It's been some time since I did this kind of stuff, but I think you
*should* be able to pull the 5.11 only alongside the standard one that
comes from stable. It's true, however, that a lot of stuff is going to be
pulled alongside. It also means no metapackages, though, so I'd agree it's
a risk/work that's probably not worth it. I'd say building yourself is
probably faster/safer in that context (or even pulling it through the Qt
maintenance tool). Correct me if I'm wrong but also trying to "ignore" the
deps may work in some cases, depending on how far stable is behind testing.

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den fre 9 nov. 2018 kl 23:23 skrev Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer

Post by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi Konstantin!
El miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2018 05:12:28 -03 Konstantin Shegunov

Post by Konstantin Shegunov

Post by Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone know of a repository for updated Qt packages for Debian
stable (stretch / 9)?

With my Debian Qt maintainer hat on: I'm afraid there is no official repo for
that. I once tried to provide backports but that would mean that many packages
would need to get rebuilt against the new Qt version, which seems not possible
to do on Debian backports.
Backporting Qt 5.10/11 to stable also requires a new dpkg due to the changes
we did in order to be able to cross compile using plain Debian packages +
multi arch.
With my personal hat on: I would *love* to provide a PPA-like semi-official
repo for this, but Debian currently lacks PPAs/bikesheds in order to do that,
and my build power is limited t a 10 years old machine, so not for now. But
yes, I do get lots of requests for this :-(

For what it's worth, I know Stephan Binner keeps a bunch of PPAs with
Qt builds for Ubuntu Xenial, which I guess _may_ work on Debian
stretch (?).

They're here for those who are interested: https://launchpad.net/~beineri

I've only tried those builds briefly, and it was quite a while ago
(they install to /opt btw).

Elvis

Post by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer

Post by Konstantin Shegunov
Pin debian testing repos with a low priority in the apt configuration and
you can get the binaries from there. Current it 5.11.2.

Only if you really know what you are doing. If you use KDE stuff (kwin for
example) you will certainly have to upgrade it, and thus half your system,
because it uses Qt's private methods.
Cheers, Lisandro.
--
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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