[MacPorts] #64518: Use Qt5 LTS compilation patches git repository from KDE

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#64518: Use Qt5 LTS compilation patches git repository from KDE
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 Reporter:  cgilles      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
Component:  ports        |    Version:
 Keywords:               |       Port:  qt5
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 Hi,

 Current qt5 port use last 5.15.2 official tarball published to compile
 source code.

 Since there is no Qt5.15 LTS tarball published as opensource by Qt team,
 KDE project has created a own git repository including all official
 security/improvement collection patches published in Qt5 project.

 All main Linux distributions start to use this repository as source code
 reference to maintain the qt5 package as LTS for version > 5.15.2.

 In digiKam project i used successfully this repository to compile the
 official Linux AppImage bundle. This allow to fix plenty of bugs in
 application due to UPSTREAM Qt bugs (as for ex. a compatibility with
 Mariadb >= 10.6 with Qt Mysql plugin).

 The bug for digiKam relevant of this improvement is this one :

 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114417

 The script used to checkout the KDE repository with AppImage Bundle
 compilation is here :

 https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/project/bundles/3rdparty/ext_qt/5.15-LTS
 /kde-qt5-lts.sh

 I highly recommend to use the KDE qt 5.15 LTS repository to maintain the
 qt5 port in Macports.

 Best

 Gilles Caulier

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