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A community-maintained package to easily install Mumble on Linux
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[Feature Request] Regular updates (for dependencies) #11

Closed toby63 closed 3 years ago

toby63 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

first of all I want to thank you for providing this snap package :+1:.

Problem: The implemented dependencies seem to be outdated in the stable branch. For example: Qt is version 5.9.5

Solution: You could update this package more often (maybe every few months), to provide users with more recent dependency versions.

popey commented 4 years ago

Thanks for filing this issue.

What do you need from newer versions of Qt in this snap?

The mumble snap is built using an Ubuntu 18.04 system against the core18 snap. That means, the way it's currently written, it stages the various qt packages from the 18.04 Ubuntu archive as part of the build process. This is why you're seeing Qt 5.9.5, as that's what comes with Ubuntu 18.04 - as can be seen at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=qttools5-dev-tools

While it would be technically possible to build all of the required Qt packages from source, that greatly lengthens build time, and is more moving parts to maintain. If someone wants to migrate this to an all-source built, and help maintain it, that'd be great, but I don't think it's super valuable.

We will, at some point migrate to being based off Ubuntu 20.04, which ships with Qt 5.12.8, but that won't happen for some months, I suspect.

toby63 commented 4 years ago

@popey Thank you for the answer and the explanation :smiley:.

What do you need from newer versions of Qt in this snap?

The overall idea is just to keep the dependency packages fairly up-to-date, as they are (obviously) bundled in this package. Qt was just an example.

The mumble snap is built using an Ubuntu 18.04

Ok, then everything is fine. I did not know that.

We will, at some point migrate to being based off Ubuntu 20.04, which ships with Qt 5.12.8, but that won't happen for some months, I suspect.

Ok, I would highly appreciate that :+1:.