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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump
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On 05/11/2011 03:32 PM, Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Chv=C3=A1tal wrote:
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> Dne 11.5.2011 13:05, Nikos Chantziaras napsal(a):
>> Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen?  AFAIK, it only contains Symbian
>> changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform.
>>
>>
> With this approach you could ask why we bump each kde release.
>
> As most of the apps does not change at all.

I don't know :-P  Avoiding needless bumps was, IIRC, one of the reasons=20
Gentoo uses split ebuilds.  Anyway, I mentioned this because in the=20
past, at least one time, a version bump for Qt was omitted exactly=20
because there were no changes.