ubuntu-app-platform updated to Qt 5.6.2

[Timo Jyrinki]

Hi Dan (and Matthias),

We tested among else webbrowser, UITK gallery and calendar app and
they run fine. We didn't anticipate problems, but as there are this
would then be the point to introduce "ubuntu-app-platform2" (currently
at ubuntu-app-platform1) as it seems that it's not the drop in
replacement hoped for. Even though at this point I'm unsure what's
causing the problem as there are no API changes to speak of.

So far we have already been adding libraries and upgrading for example
Oxide while keeping the "ubuntu-app-platform1". I will bump the
content field to "2" now.

-Timo

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Dan Chapman <dpniel at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> How are apps using ubuntu-app-platform supposed to handle this?
>
> This change has left all apps currently using ubuntu-app-platform unusable without a rebuild of the consuming snap. Which is a rather unpleasant UX and causes unnecessary issues for the developers.
>
> Should it not be that the contents of the ubuntu-app-platform snap never change without a change to the name? i.e ubuntu-app-platform2. Otherwise there is always going to be an endless
> cycle of broken snaps because developers weren't around to rebuild every 6 months or so.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:26:35 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ubuntu-app-platform #26 has Qt 5.6.2 (up from 5.6.1), including around
>> 5 months of upstream LTS bugfixes. It passed QA and everything seems
>> to work normally, but you might find some pet bug to be fixed. Since
>> this is the first point release update done in ubuntu-app-platform I
>> thought to do an announcement.
>>
>> To recap, the platform snap is mostly to be used by apps that target
>> Ubuntu Personal and require a shared Qt with backported patches and
>> other libraries.
>>
>> For most Qt applications snappers, either simply staging from archives
>> or using the Qt 5.7 / 5.8 cloud parts offering pure upstream Qt are
>> probably more interesting. See the blog post at
>> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/11/16/snapping-qt-apps/ for
>> more information.
>>
>> Qt 5.6.3 should follow in 6 months or so.
>>
>> -Timo
>>
>
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