Comment 7 for bug 1660016

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 1660016] Re: system apps snaps Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50602) with this library (version 0x50601)

On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 15:26 +0000, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> So I think there is a missing bit somewhere that should be recompiled
> against Qt 5.6.2 still (or simply allow new binaries from overlay PPA
> to
> be staged), after which the #26 platform snap should actually be
> declared stable.
>
> As long as there are multiple sources for QPA modules instead of eg
> ubuntu-app-platform providing them all, there is room for problems if
> not everything is upgraded at the same time.
>
I think that it's not the QPA modules as much as the other libraries
that are pulled into the snap along with building it.
It seems like any update to Qt will require a name change of the snap
so that they can be installed in parallel to allow apps to use the one
they need.