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Qt absolutely releases updates https://wiki.qt.io/QtReleasing https://wiki.qt.io/QtReleasing (Disclaimer: I work for the Qt company)

vbezhenar 3y ago
6.0.4 released at 2021-04-22, 6.1 released at 2021-04-27. Where's 6.0.5 and so on? It's not released. Debian supports its releases for 5 years, not for 5 days.
- b112 3y ago
  Debian supports its releases for 5 years, not for 5 days. Only run Debian here, but to be clear, Debian supports releases for 1 year after the next release, so typically 3 years max. Debian LTS is handled by a third party, non-debian org, via donations. All packages are not necessarily covered, it's not the Debian securtiy team. This is important to understand, as LTS depends upon donations to decide what gets secuirty updates. Donors have a say. So for example, you'll see apache, openssl, php updated, but not obscure pacakges.
- yellow_lead 3y ago
  6.0 wasn't LTS afaict. 6.2 and 6.5 are LTS, but they still seem to only have 1-2 years of support
  - vbezhenar 3y ago
    AFAIK LTS is for paying customers only. For mortal people there's no LTS, there're only promises that 6.3 is backwards-compatible (but then why people pay for LTS at all). Qt 6.2.4 was released at 2022-02-17 and it's the last public available 6.2 version. 6.3 was released at 2022-03-16. For paying customers they released 6.2.8 few months ago, for example, but it's not available for everyone else.
    - nairboon 3y ago
      Do you expect them to maintain all old releases for free forever?
      - vbezhenar 3y ago
        I do not expect anything from them and I’m grateful to receive quality open source library for free with current terms as that’s infinitely better than having a proprietary library. I’m just merely trying to understand how Debian deals with thus situation. That said, of course having upstream patches available for free, as it was in the past, would even be better.
    - yellow_lead 3y ago
      I see. Thanks for clarification
- torarnv 3y ago
  6.0.0 was released 08.12.2020, with 6.0.4 released at 04.05.2021 as the last patch release in that minor series. That's more than 5 days of support for the 6.0 minor series. If Debian supports its releases for longer than the upstream projects do, then that's a (perfectly valid) choice of Debian, but I'm assuming that involves maintaining those projects as well, to the standards of Debian's support policies.
- rprospero 3y ago
  I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question properly, but versions 6.2 through 6.5 are available here. https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/ https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/ You can find a more local mirror on the mirror list https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/ https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/

vbezhenar 3y ago

6.0.4 released at 2021-04-22, 6.1 released at 2021-04-27. Where's 6.0.5 and so on? It's not released. Debian supports its releases for 5 years, not for 5 days.

b112 3y ago
Debian supports its releases for 5 years, not for 5 days. Only run Debian here, but to be clear, Debian supports releases for 1 year after the next release, so typically 3 years max. Debian LTS is handled by a third party, non-debian org, via donations. All packages are not necessarily covered, it's not the Debian securtiy team. This is important to understand, as LTS depends upon donations to decide what gets secuirty updates. Donors have a say. So for example, you'll see apache, openssl, php updated, but not obscure pacakges.
yellow_lead 3y ago
6.0 wasn't LTS afaict. 6.2 and 6.5 are LTS, but they still seem to only have 1-2 years of support
- vbezhenar 3y ago
  AFAIK LTS is for paying customers only. For mortal people there's no LTS, there're only promises that 6.3 is backwards-compatible (but then why people pay for LTS at all). Qt 6.2.4 was released at 2022-02-17 and it's the last public available 6.2 version. 6.3 was released at 2022-03-16. For paying customers they released 6.2.8 few months ago, for example, but it's not available for everyone else.
  - nairboon 3y ago
    Do you expect them to maintain all old releases for free forever?
    - vbezhenar 3y ago
      I do not expect anything from them and I’m grateful to receive quality open source library for free with current terms as that’s infinitely better than having a proprietary library. I’m just merely trying to understand how Debian deals with thus situation. That said, of course having upstream patches available for free, as it was in the past, would even be better.
  - yellow_lead 3y ago
    I see. Thanks for clarification
torarnv 3y ago
6.0.0 was released 08.12.2020, with 6.0.4 released at 04.05.2021 as the last patch release in that minor series. That's more than 5 days of support for the 6.0 minor series. If Debian supports its releases for longer than the upstream projects do, then that's a (perfectly valid) choice of Debian, but I'm assuming that involves maintaining those projects as well, to the standards of Debian's support policies.
rprospero 3y ago
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question properly, but versions 6.2 through 6.5 are available here. https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/ https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/ You can find a more local mirror on the mirror list https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/ https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/