• scorpio810
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Topic: Update QET macOS aarch64 packaging to Qt Tool Kit 5.15.15 -> 5.15.17

FYI, I just recompiled the whole digiKam macports install (9 hours of build) need for QET packaging. new public stable release of Qt5 cross-platform framework Qt 5.15.17. Before it's was commercial LTS release.

At this point in time, Linux distributions are starting to track which packages are blocking a future Qt5 cleanup. Real Qt Company OSS support stopped back in 2020, when public availability of LTS releases started to be delayed for 1 year, stable branch repository access got closed down (with 5.15 branch repository receiving any new LTS tag one year after commercial release) and only Qt6-relevant bugs are being fixed (then backported) since then. The final release happened on 2025-05-19, which means a) we will not get it until 2026-06-19, b) any bugs discovered since last May will not be fixed and c) no bugs since 2020-12-08 that haven't also been affecting Qt6 were fixed at all.

https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-q … 7-released
https://ports.macports.org/port/qt5/

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