Qt 5.9 Transition

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This is about getting our KDE packaging ready for the Qt 5.9 transition

Assessment

WIP Qt 5.9 packages

• Both Simon and Dmitry Schanev (~ mitya57) have been working on debian's getting the Qt 5.9 packaging almost done.
• The packages intended to land in Artful are available here: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/2819
• Simon also has a PPA with some Qt experimental packages here: https://launchpad.net/~tsimonq2/+archive/ubuntu/qt

Test rebulilds

• Santa is doing some test rebuilds of Frameworks/Plasma/Applications here: http://gpul.grupos.udc.es/buildstatus_ubuntu-exp3/ these test rebuilds are including the autopkgtests results

Current Status

• We still have several kdepim packages stuck @ -proposed
• kio has an extra symbol after being built against Qt 5.9
• solid has an extra symbol for i386 after being built against Qt 5.9
• kfilemetadata is failing its autopkgtests